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| 04.01.2009 |
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Oklahoma City ALC: Military MRO in Transition
Despite its aging infrastructure, the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center is implementing new work process methods to improve efficiency and productivity with impressive results. At almost 70 years old, the...
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Emerging MRO Markets
Even with the global economic slowdown, several areas are growing at almost exponential speed. These areas include India, China and the Middle East. What remains to be seen is if these areas will put on their...
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Abu Dhabi: Cultivating the MRO Market
A new airline, a recently rebranded MRO and a major airport expansion program all add up in an effort to make the largest of the United Arab Emirates a preeminent aerospace hub. When Etihad Airways announced...
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| 04.01.2009 |
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How to Make SMS Work Better for Everyone
ICAO, the International Civil Aviation Organization, a group that provides aviation safety standards, requested its participating nations to require safety management system (SMS) of its "service providers" by the first of this year...
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Armand F. Lauzon, Jr., President of Chromalloy and CEO of Sequa Corp.
AM: Chromalloy has kept a fairly low profile over the years. Tell us what the company’s core business is. Lauzon: Chromalloy is an independent supplier of technologically advanced repairs, coatings, and FAA-approved replacement parts for turbine airfoils and other critical engine components...
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| 03.01.2009 |
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Intelligence: News
HBS Adds Paint Facility to Chester Maintenance Center Hawker Beechcraft Services (HBS) has opened a 25,000-square-foot paint facility at its Hawarden Airport (CEG) aircraft maintenance center near Chester...
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Intelligence: Briefs
Bombardier Expands Network In addition to making improvements at two existing locations, Bombardier Aerospace has bolstered its worldwide service network by adding a line maintenance facility (LMF) at Jetflite...
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| 03.01.2009 |
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Part 21 Proposal Divides PMA Community
Industry awaits final rule, with revisions. For more than a decade the FAA has wanted to rewrite chunks of Part 21 on the certification procedures for products and parts. A major goal, according to the Oct...
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| 03.01.2009 |
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Shooting for The Sharper Image
Normally, the phrase "Image is everything" is a somewhat derogatory comment on our social mores. But in today’s world of remote visual inspections, it means the next major step in borescope technology... that and greater portability. Borescope manufacturers are achieving greater imagery in their products in two separate ways,...
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| 03.01.2009 |
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Lab Tests Provide Insights Into Degradation of Phosphate Ester Hydraulic Fluids
Exploring why hydraulic fluids can degrade and comparing the stability of different commercially available types. In conjunction with ExxonMobil’s September 2008 introduction of a new hydraulic fluid called...
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| 03.01.2009 |
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Maintenance Tools
Misting System Aims to Reduce Bird Strikes Bird-B-Gone, which designs and manufacturers various bird control products, is offering its new bird misting system as part of an overall strategy to deter the...
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| 03.01.2009 |
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Human Factors Ladder Still Needs to Extend Higher
We have certainly come a long way in human factors training for aircraft maintenance technicians. I have had the opportunity to work with organizations around the world teaching and helping to develop customized human factors programs....
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Wesley Bowen, 60-Year Aircraft Mechanic
According to FAA records, Wesley R. Bowen received his engine rating in May 1946 and airframe rating in March 1947. He was granted inspection authorization (IA) in Oct. 1957. Bowen is a recipient of FAA's Charles Taylor Master Mechanic award...
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| 02.01.2009 |
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Go FAASTeam Go
The FAA Safety Team or FAASTeam is a group devoted to reducing aircraft accidents by promoting a cultural change in the aviation community toward a higher level of safety. This group is doing great things to...
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| 02.01.2009 |
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Intelligence: Briefs
Design Review Complete Honeywell and Pratt & Whitney joint venture, Advanced Turbine Engine Co., has finished a preliminary design review (PDR) for the U.S. Army Aviation Applied Technology Directorate’s...
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| 02.01.2009 |
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UAE’s Growing Helicopter Maintenance Centers
Middle East destination is quickly developing into a hub for helicopter repairs and services for corporate, VIP and military operators. With the discovery of oil in the Arabian Peninsula in the late 1950s and...
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| 02.01.2009 |
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Tools of the Trade
Tools run the gamut from our own brains to manuals, and from hardware to software. A&P David Schober tried out a number of offerings sent by numerous tool manufacturers. Here is what he learned....
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| 02.01.2009 |
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Re-Engineering USAF Avionics Maintenance: Lean Challenges
The U.S. Air Force has publicized its new approach to heavy maintenance through the High Velocity Maintenance (HVM) program. Experts at Warner Robins Air Logistics Center (ALC) aim to apply Lean principles...
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West Star Aviation
West Star Aviation is coming off an "exceptional" year in 2008 and continues to expand its network of service locations, as well as improve existing facilities by updating its lobbies and adding customer offices, despite an economic picture that is trending downward....
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| 02.01.2009 |
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Maintenance Tools
Wheel Probes Highlight Ultrasonic Sensor Line UK-based Sonatest Ltd. has launched a line of ultrasonic NDT sensors that includes its Wheelphobe series. Three models comprise the series — the single element...
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