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| 04.01.2005 |
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Special Safety Report - The Saga of Papa Whiskey
By all accounts, the Lufthansa Airbus A320 known as Papa Whiskey remains flying today due to the incredible skill and teamwork of the two pilots at the controls on March 21, 2001. Papa Whiskey carried 121 passengers and crew on that fateful day and was...
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| 03.01.2005 |
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PAMA Aviation Maintenance Olympics
PAMA Olympics Overview People often ask what are the PAMA Aviation Maintenance Olympics all about? Simply, they are an opportunity for any current PAMA member technician to show off his or her skills and experience in a variety of competitive events built...
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| 03.01.2005 |
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Piston Engine
Overhaul Part
The end-result of overhauling an engine is a little anti-climactic. Sure, it's a kick to light it off for the first time and take off powered by an engine that you've had in hundreds of little pieces. If everything goes the way you want it, then the first...
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| 10.01.2004 |
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Executive Roundtable
Leaders from the manufacturer customer support divisions speak candidly about aging aircraft, training of A&Ps, the FAA, and the impact of technology. Serious About Service Airframe, engine, and component manufacturers continue to make inroads into...
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| 09.01.2004 |
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Bogus Parts Broker Gets Jail
Tempio Pausania, Italy--Enzo Fregonese, 75 year old owner of Panavia-tion, an aircraft spare parts broker company located in Rome, Italy on February 26th was sentenced by the District Court of Tempio Pausania in Sardegna to serve a 15-month jail sentence for...
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| 07.01.2004 |
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The Aviation Maintenance Annual Salary Survey
Co-Sponsored by PAMA By Kathleen Kocks Last year aircraft maintenance professionals gained good ground in terms of compensation. This year they gave some of it back. There is no pleasant way to report this: According to Aviation Maintenance's 2004...
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| 02.01.2004 |
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Caught Before Decompression
: Cracks and corrosion in bonded skin panels may prove to be the aerospace equivalent of concrete blight in the construction industry. Case in point: a US Airways Boeing 737-300 with 35,710 flight cycles was found with a 10-inch crack on a fuselage lap joint...
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| 12.01.2003 |
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Editor’s Choice
Each year, Aviation Maintenance’s editors choose outstanding products and services in various categories. During 2003, a number of interesting new developments occurred, from Approach Systems’s new method of wiring avionics installations to...
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| 12.01.2003 |
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My Story
This story was originally published in Collier’s magazine December 25, 1948 and is reprinted here with the permission of the Charles E. Taylor family. Taylor and Ball wrote this story in 1948. It was a hot June night in Dayton. It must have been a...
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| 11.01.2003 |
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Safety News:
Rags on trim jackscrew In a report to the NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System, a potential problem was revealed by the technician who submitted a report on a Boeing 737-400. NASA’s Linda J. Connell, director of the ASRS...
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| 10.01.2003 |
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Independent Maintenance Shops Speak Out
Aviation Maintenance invited executives from top independent business aircraft repair stations to meet for an Executive Roundtable on July 17. A lot has changed since this group met two years ago; business has become much more challenging and the aviation...
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| 10.01.2003 |
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Essential NDT
NDT expert Joseph Stump describes everything you need to know to manage non-destructive testing/inspection processes in your shop or for when sub-contractors are supplying NDT services. Non-destructive inspection (NDI) has been an integral part of aviation...
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| 10.01.2003 |
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Keeping Insurance Rates in Check
If your shop is struggling to pay ever-increasing insurance premiums, then you are not alone. Skyrocketing rates are an epidemic causing many small facilities to shut down and large shops to cut coverage to a bare minimum. AvDyne AeroServices in Baltimore...
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| 07.01.2003 |
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2003 Salary Survey results
The number crunching is complete for Aviation Maintenance’s 2003 annual salary survey of aviation maintenance professionals, and we have a somewhat surprising picture this time. The survey indicates an overall average salary of $60,900 ($29.28 per...
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| 06.01.2003 |
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Safety News
Training, inspection at heart of new wiring task force recommendations: The way forward on aircraft wiring safety is at a critical juncture, with enormous implications for manufacturers and operators in terms of the cost and labor burden. A U.S...
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| 04.01.2003 |
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Angels in the Field
The Blue Angels show off what sailors and marines in the fleet do every day. You just can’t watch a Blue Angels show and not come away excited and maybe just a bit proud. After all, from their signature diamond formation maneuvers, with 18 inches from...
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| 04.01.2003 |
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Safety News
Shoot the Messenger No More: In the days after Columbia was lost, Ron Dittemore was the face of the search for why that orbiter and its crew of seven were lost. NASA's shuttle program manager, he daily updated us on the details of the Columbia investigation...
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| 03.01.2003 |
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Safety News
In the Spotlight: Will the loss of the space shuttle Columbia add to public scrutiny of maintenance this year? It became clear that maintenance will be in the spotlight after an Air Midwest Raytheon 1900D crashed on takeoff in Charlotte, North Carolina...
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| 02.01.2003 |
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Safety News
Fallout From Alaska Crash: Overhaul facilities and operators of Boeing DC-9s, MD-80s, MD-90s, and 717s could face new maintenance restrictions and requirements if that aircraft maker and the FAA accept federal safety recommendations issued as a result of an...
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| 01.01.2003 |
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‘Unacceptable’ Safety in Aerial Firefighting Operations
A blue ribbon commission formed after fatal firefighting aircraft accidents during 2002 found significant problems with aerial firefighting. The commission was a joint effort of the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management and the...
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