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| 11.01.2005 |
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The Aviation Maintenance Executive Roundtable: The Independents’ View
On July 12, 2005 Aviation Maintenance publisher Dan Comiskey, editor Matt Thurber, and nine executives from independent business aviation maintenance companies met to discuss important issues affecting the aircraft maintenance industry. Topics ranged from the...
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| 11.01.2005 |
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Export Compliance
Warning! If your maintenance business does work for non-U.S. customers, you must first check federal trade laws to verify that you're allowed to serve them. If you don't and get caught doing repairs for banned persons, companies, or governments, you could be...
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| 11.01.2005 |
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AVIATION MAINTENANCE EXECUTIVE ROUNDTABLE CONFERENCE July 12, 2005 Verizon Place Hotel and Conference Center, D/FW Airport, Texas Glen Brown, Stevens Aviation Gary Driggers, Midcoast Aviation Mark Karls, Savannah Air Center Mark Matthes, Duncan Aviation Tom...
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| 10.01.2005 |
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BAE Regional Aircraft Adds New Support Services
Maintenance, engineering support, modification, aircraft conversion, and spares provisioning have all been taken on by BAE Systems Regional Aircraft under a new program of customer service and product enhancement recently announced. A division of BAE Systems...
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| 10.01.2005 |
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Workplace - Personnel Shortage Worries BBGA
In a presentation to the Royal Aeronautical Society in London in April entitled GA Maintenance under EASA, Mark Wilson, chief executive of the British Business and General Aviation Association, opined that dealings between the U.K. body and the new European...
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| 09.01.2005 |
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Borescopes
In theory, borescopes are straightforward instruments. Using a combination of lenses, an eyepiece at one end, and some form of tube that can be inserted into tight spaces, "Borescopes allow users to look inside small, deep, or complex parts and...
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| 09.01.2005 |
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Commercial - TWU, American Airlines Team Up for Tulsa Profit Center
In order to keep American Airlines's MRO work in-house, TWU Local 514 has joined with AA management to achieve $500 million in extra revenues and cost savings at the airline's Tulsa Maintenance & Engineering Base (Tulsa Base). Under the deal, a joint...
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| 09.01.2005 |
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Hardware - Intevia Intelligent Fasteners Save Time, But Will It Lock Out MROs?
Software-controlled intelligent fasteners: that's what Textron Fastening Systems (TFS) has achieved with its new Intevia latching system. Using a powered, radio-controlled microprocessor electrically connected to a piece of shape memory alloy in a wire form...
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| 09.01.2005 |
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Sandia Labs and the Science of Non-Destructive Inspection
If Missouri's motto is "Show Me," then New Mexico, or at least Albuquerque and the areas around the FAA Airworthiness Assurance NDI Validation Center at Sandia National Laboratories (AANC), should have the motto, "Prove It To Me,"...
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| 09.01.2005 |
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Workplace - Help Finding Help
You can't hardly pick up an aviation magazine or visit an industry website without reading about the ongoing cutbacks and layoffs that are plaguing the major airlines' maintenance operations. Thousands of highly qualified maintenance technicians are...
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| 08.01.2005 |
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Entry Into Eclipse
The airplane is made of conventional aluminum. The engines are small robust turbofans. And the controls are as standard as they come; cables, pulleys, and pushrods, no fly-by-wire. But dig a little deeper, and there is much more to Eclipse Aviation's Eclipse...
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| 08.01.2005 |
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Insurance
Starting a Shop: Insurance Issues With a few years of aviation maintenance experience behind you, you've decided to quit your current job and start your own maintenance service business. Perhaps you've already leased your shop space, purchased equipment, and...
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| 05.01.2005 |
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How to Start a Quality Control Program
How to Start a Quality Control Program Perfect mechanics (and you know who you are) don't need a quality control program. You do everything right the first time, every time. Your tech manuals are memorized, saving a lot of otherwise wasted research time...
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| 04.01.2005 |
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Avionics
ELT Testing: What is Required? Most aircraft are required to carry an emergency locator transmitter, including all private and commercially operated jets since January 1, 2004. While there are still plenty of ELTs operating on 121.5/243.0 megahertz, after...
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| 04.01.2005 |
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A Step above A&P Mechanic
A Step above A&P Mechanic Many of us have been pushing over the years for some type of advanced recognition from the FAA for A&P mechanics who have training and/or qualifications above that required for the basic ratings. The FAA developed the AMT...
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| 04.01.2005 |
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The Soul of a New Engine
Pratt & Whitney Canada took a bold risk when it committed to production of the new PW600 engine model for the Cessna Mustang and the Eclipse 500 very light jets. To make this program work, which involves designing, building, and servicing a new engine...
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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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Bizjet MRO
Cessna Parts Distribution, the Art and the Science Jack Stiffler, vice president Citation Parts Distribution and eight-year Cessna veteran, completed the move to a new facility three and a half years ago. Stiffler is responsible for Cessna's Citation...
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| 03.01.2005 |
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Commercial
A Different Focus for Saab As the industry changed in the past several years, Saab Aircraft has had to change its strategies to survive. Saab has made a successful transition from manufacturer to a service and support company. The company now focuses on...
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| 03.01.2005 |
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Light Aircraft
An Introduction to Quality, Part 1 When Dr. James Allen decided on an avionics upgrade, he wasn't planning on fixing up his Cherokee 235's dowdy interior. There was no question that the interior needed some attention. A big hole in the headliner leaked...
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