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| 07.01.2009 |
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The 'Mendoza Line' for MROs
The "Mendoza Line" for MROs Those of us who love baseball use an expression called "The Mendoza Line," a reference to when a player’s batting average falls below.200. If a hitter’s...
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| 06.01.2009 |
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What Composites Mean for You
The adoption of composites represents a revolution in aircraft manufacturing — a change as significant as the switch from wood to aluminum in the 1920s. However, the maintenance...
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| 05.01.2009 |
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Barcodes on Steroids
Competition is heating up among airline shops, OEMs and independent providers to give customers faster turnaround times for MRO. At the same time, the supply chain is spreading to...
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| 04.01.2009 |
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Rays of Hope Amid the Gloom
While I was glad-handing at February’s Heli-Expo 2009 in Anaheim, the incessant need for helicopters to undergo intensive maintenance emerged as a major topic of discussion at the...
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| 03.01.2009 |
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What's in the Bag?
Predictions tend to be the pastime of fools. As Wilbur Wright admitted in 1908: "I confess that in 1901, I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for 50 years. Ever since...
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| 02.01.2009 |
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The Chattering Class Gets Nervous
I recently ran into one of my counterparts at an aviation industry gathering, and his remarks to me were profoundly disturbing (well, what passes for profound among publishing's...
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| 12.01.2008 |
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Flying Into Rough Skies
Despite all of the talk about reducing our dependency on oil, we are unavoidably compelled to live in the "Hydrocarbon Age," well into the foreseeable future. Even though oil...
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| 11.01.2008 |
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Bursting Bubbles
That whooshing sound you hear is the air escaping from our punctured bubble economy — and with it, everyone’s expectations for business jets. Until recently, most analysts were predicting...
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| 10.01.2008 |
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Spotting News You Can't Use
Pass me the aspirin — I just got my 10th unsolicited press release of the day and it’s not even noon yet. I tend to get inundated with releases all year long, but the sudden surge in their generation is...
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| 09.01.2008 |
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The Good, the Bad and the FUD
Most journalists I know would prefer to skip the Farnborough Air Show, but it’s such an important event, we’re compelled to go. This biennial show is run by the Brits, so it’s no surprise that it’s...
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| 08.01.2008 |
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Surviving the Perfect Storm
Record oil prices are pushing the cost of jet fuel to nosebleed heights, forcing many operators and their suppliers into retrenchment and decline — even bankruptcy. In the matter of a few months, the...
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| 07.01.2008 |
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RFID Use in Tracking Parts
The use of radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags for highly precise tracking in supply chains is crossing over from the consumer world to emerge as a mainstream technology in the aviation maintenance...
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| 06.01.2008 |
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Aviation Maintenance: Back Shop: Aviation Today
Beyond Mass Production Remember when America feared that its once-mighty manufacturing base was getting "hollowed out" and its assembly line workers were being transformed into a mindless horde of...
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| 05.01.2008 |
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Aviation Maintenance: Back Shop: Aviation Today
Igor Sikorsky, the godfather of the modern helicopter, perhaps summed it up best: "Aeronautics was neither an industry nor a science. It was a miracle." When I served as editor-in-chief of Rotor...
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| 04.01.2008 |
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In Country
In Country Preconceived notions are the bane of any profession, but they’re particularly insidious in a strategic industry like aviation. There’s nothing worse than self-appointed "experts" who...
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| 03.06.2008 |
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The Truth Behind The Lies
Mark Twain once said, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.” Well, the latest statistics about the aviation industry are not only truthful; they’re reassuring. According to the Teal Group and G2 Solutions, two...
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| 12.01.2007 |
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Aviation Today
Back in medieval times, when I was a college student in my native Boston, I typed all of my term papers on a battered manual typewriter, the personal computer was only a gleam in Steve Jobs’ eye, and my...
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| 11.01.2007 |
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Back Shop: Aviation Today
Composites represent the most important improvement in aircraft construction since the introduction of aluminum in the 1920s. The adoption of these "miracle materials" is sweeping all sectors of...
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| 10.01.2007 |
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Back Shop: Aviation Today
Jack Northrop. Leroy Grumman. Donald Douglas. Glenn Martin. Howard Hughes. There was a time when the logos of aviation firms boasted a single last name. These individuals were visionaries, typically engineers...
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| 09.01.2007 |
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Back Shop: Aviation Today
"Greed is good." During the go-go 1980s, the infamous financier Ivan Boesky imparted that inspirational homily in a speech to college kids. Boesky’s sentiment (echoed by his cinematic alter ego...
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