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| 04.01.2007 |
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Product Focus: Don’t Know, Don’t Care: Batteries
Pilots see their aircraft on every flight, and each preflight represents the last chance to spot impending troubles. We know that many pilots are in a hurry, possibly uninterested or (the likeliest case) not...
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| 03.01.2007 |
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Product Focus: Here’s What’s New In GSE
Thankfully the days of a rusty Jeep, tall ladders and jury-rigged tools have given way to specially designed equipment that makes ground handling and servicing of business and commercial aircraft easier and...
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| 02.01.2007 |
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General Aviation: An Inside Look at EMBRAER’S PHENOM
Less than six months after Embraer launched the Phenom 100 very light jet and the Phenom 300 light jet, they had hundreds of firm orders for aircraftthat wouldn’t enter service for another two years...
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| 02.01.2007 |
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Product Focus: Life in the FASTENERS Lane
In the world of engineered components, fasteners aren’t the first things engineers think about and they’re commonly treated as routine. But, choose the wrong fastener for the application and the best laid...
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| 01.01.2007 |
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Back Shop
MOTORIZED TIRE STORAGE BY STANLEY VIDMAR The new Stanley Vidmar motorized tire carousel is designed to help make aviation and automotive maintenance facilities cleaner, more efficient and safer by eliminating...
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| 12.01.2006 |
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AIRCELLE GROWS
Engine nacelles must withstand tremendous abuse and protect one of the most expensive components on any aircraft, the engine. Aircelle manufactures nacelles and repairs them....
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| 11.01.2006 |
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Helicopter Parts: Playing Their Role
Last year, the helicopter industry essentially committed itself to reducing
the accident rate by 80 percent over the next 10 years....
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| 10.01.2006 |
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Engine Washing
New on-wing washing using an atomized mist of water penetrates deeper into the engine and promises to be environmentally friendly It may be one of the great ironies of modern aviation that turbine engines work most efficiently at temperatures more than hot...
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| 10.01.2006 |
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The Eye Inside
Borescopes and videoscopes are providing increasing capabilities to users and can save time and money in the hangar. The thing with borescopes is not so much what they do, but how they do it. Here is a look at the industry's latest and greatest ways to...
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| 10.01.2006 |
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Tools Make the Maintainer
Good tools, and effective tool control, are essential for modern maintenance needs. The quality of maintenance workmanship depends on the technician doing the work, to be sure, but the quality of tools used plays an important role. The guiding principles at...
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| 09.01.2006 |
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Engine Washing
New on-wing washing using an atomized mist of water penetrates deeper into the engine and promises to be environmentally friendly It may be one of the great ironies of modern aviation that turbine engines work most efficiently at temperatures more than hot...
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| 09.01.2006 |
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UK MRO Operator Harrods: Benefits from Up-Market Service
The high costs of maintenance equipment, tools and engineering training concern UK-based MRO Harrods Aviation, which in recent times has seen $20,000 going towards Gulfstream jet tooling and another $52,000 toward Embraer series tooling alone, together with...
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| 08.01.2006 |
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IGNITION SYSTEMS–The State of the Art, and Keeping Up With It
Once upon a time, aircraft ignition systems were simple, almost primitive components; airborne versions of the rough-hewn magnetos and spark plugs found in contemporary cars and trucks. Times have changed. Although today's ignition systems can trace their...
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| 07.01.2006 |
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Puttin’ on the Paint
One of the most labor-intensive elements of hand work MRO technicians must do is applying exterior primer paint, topcoat, livery details and clear protective coating on aircraft. Complete jobs may entail new paint or scuff and repainting the entire aircraft...
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| 04.01.2006 |
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Coping with Corrosion
Corrosion can turn millions of dollars' of safe, proven airframes into deadly accidents just waiting to happen. "In the United States alone, aircraft corrosion is a multi-billion dollar problem," says www.corrosion-doctors.org. "On some...
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| 03.01.2006 |
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Vending Machines for Tools and Parts
Few problems can cause an MRO more grief--and more potential long-term damage--than poorly controlled parts inventories. If management doesn't know who is using what parts when, and who may be walking out with such merchandise, then the tasks of cost control...
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| 02.01.2006 |
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Why ISO?
ISO certification is becoming more popular in the aviation community. ISO stands for International Organization for Standardization and is a non-governmental organization comprised of the national standards bodies of 149 countries from all regions of the...
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| 12.01.2005 |
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Keep Track Of Those Tools
Every mechanic has awakened in the night to this nightmare: you've just buttoned up a beautiful aircraft after extensive work under tight time constraints and you are watching it taxi out for the first flight after the work. Just then you glance into...
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| 11.01.2005 |
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Tool Crib
STICK IT Won't Let Go When Peter Burgher was building his Aventura amphibious airplane, he grew frustrated while trying to work under the instrument panel, trying to manipulate nuts and washers with one hand without being able to see. Burgher tried all the...
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| 11.01.2005 |
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TRAINING:THE KEY TO SAFETY AND DISPATCH RELIABILITY
Maintenance training. Those two words are likely to start a heated debate anywhere they are mentioned in the aviation maintenance industry. While the debate over required training for maintenance personnel rages on, training companies are pushing forward with...
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