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| 03.01.2005 |
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NDT
Honeywell Sensors to Detect Composite Failures Honeywell Automation and Control Solutions (ACS) is currently working on a new type of sensor system that can provide non-destructive inspection information to maintenance personnel regarding the health of an...
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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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PMA Industry Facing Maturity Challenge
For many years, the people who created and built the PMA parts industry have been holding their collective breath, hoping that this day wouldn't come but knowing that it was inevitable. (PMA or parts manufacturer approval is an FAA regulation permitting an...
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| 03.01.2005 |
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KLM Opens State-of-the-Art Engine Shop
KLM Opens State-of-the-Art Engine Shop KLM Engineering and Maintenance (KLM E&M) opened a new turbine engine shop at Schiphol-East in December 2004. This is a division called Engine Services, which maintains engines and engine components, provides a...
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| 03.01.2005 |
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Ready or Not, 145 Training is the Law
Ready or Not, 145 Training is the Law Training programs for those who work at 14 CFR Part 145 repair stations become mandatory on April 6, 2005. As of that date, most repair stations (depending on their date of certification) must have an FAA-approved...
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| 02.01.2005 |
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Bizjet MRO
How to Protect Your Profit Margins Is your company charging enough for maintenance work? That's a question that was nagging at Jim Bates a few years ago. Having just been hired as vice president and chief financial officer at Midcoast Aviation, a business...
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| 02.01.2005 |
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Peening Proves Promising Process
You'll never look at metal the same after attending shot peening training classes at an Electronics Incorporated seminar. Shot peening is one of those techniques that we've all heard about but about which few of us know much beyond the fact that it involves...
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| 12.01.2004 |
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Turbine Engines
Rolls-Royce Plans New R & O Facility in Scotland Engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce is planning to build a new repair and overhaul facility in East Kilbride, Scotland to replacement the existing operation. As the latter is more than 50 years old, investing...
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| 10.01.2004 |
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Obsolescence Group Aids European Industry
Obsolescence Group Aids European Industry The growing problem of early part and component obsolescence caused by the rapid pace of technological change is being met by a U.K. organization specifically formed to aid industry with these growing...
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| 10.01.2004 |
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Certification and Training of NDT Personnel
Certification and Training of NDT Personnel The training, certification, and documentation of aviation maintenance personnel has been a longstanding concern of the industry. Airframe and Powerplant Mechanics, avionics technicians, and certificated...
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| 10.01.2004 |
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OEM Executive Roundtable: Serious About Service
Airframe, engine, and component manufacturers continue to make inroads into the aftermarket service arena. At this year's OEM Executive Roundtable, eight senior executives from top aviation manufacturers joined Aviation Maintenance publisher Nancy...
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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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| 08.01.2004 |
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Maintaining the Fractional Fleet
Maintenance impacts every aspect of the NetJets operation. Here is a look at the challenging job of keeping the company's high-utilization fleet flying safely and efficiently. Every morning at NetJets headquarters in Columbus, Ohio, a group of key people...
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| 07.01.2004 |
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Postflight
The Entrepreneurial Spirit Find a viable market in a robust industry and give it all you've got. Such a business philosophy sounds good, but it would likely steer one away from the airline industry in recent years. It did not scare Jerry Hernandez away...
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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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| 05.01.2004 |
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Bizjet MRO
Sabreliner Celebrates 20 Years In just two short decades Sabreliner Corporation has grown from a small aircraft maintenance and modification business to becoming, with the addition of Midcoast Aviation, one of the true corporate aircraft MRO powerhouses in...
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| 05.01.2004 |
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A&O Composites Tackles Niche Component Market
The leftovers of a Cold War strategic bomber base in the Texas Panhandle town of Amarillo have become quarters fine enough for a company that's becoming increasingly well-known for its expertise in composite structures. Standing outside the 1950s-era hangar...
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| 05.01.2004 |
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Editorial
There is a large airline that operates DC-10s. This airline has a big problem. The fundamental problem is that if a mechanic screws up and damages an airplane at this airline, there is a formal punishment process that is invoked. And if the mechanic screws up...
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| 05.01.2004 |
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Something New in IA Renewal
Few aspects of aircraft operation generate more discussion, controversy, and outright dispute than piston-engine powerplant management. And with the advent of modern graphic engine-monitoring systems, aviation maintenance technicians find themselves more...
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| 05.01.2004 |
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Wing Aviation Offering Mx Tech Scholarship
Good help is always hard to find, but a Conroe company says 2004 will be the year it takes steps to assure itself of quality employees in the future. Wing Aviation, which opened an aircraft heavy maintenance operation a year ago at the Montgomery County...
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