Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 59 Issue 2
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Servicing and Test Equipment
CURRENT maintenance programmes require the provision of adequate testing facilities since the majority of items are subject to ‘on‐condition’ or ‘condition monitored’ processes…
Measuring Device Will Transform Spray Coating and Surface Testing Industries
A NEW type of measuring device that promises to revolutionise the spraying and testing of coated surfaces in a wide range of industries, including aeronautical engineering, could…
Vacuum Gauge Calibration Package Covers Ranges from 10−5mb to 1300mb
CHELL Instruments have now introduced a vacuum gauge calibration system which covers the ranges from 10−5mb to 1300mb and which provides long term repeatabilities of better than…
OEM to End‐User, Test Technology Transfer
VICKERS Systems are a major manufacturer of hydraulic electrohydraulic, electromechanical and electronic products and control systems for the world's aerospace, marine and defence…
Britain Exports Advanced Technology to Japan
VICKERS Design and Projects have just completed one of their most prestigious contracts so far. Prestigious, both for the technology and the client. The techology used for this…
Precise Positional Control Introduces Major Advance in Automatic NDT
CONTROL for a high precision multi‐axis positioning system has been provided by HMK Technical Services Ltd of Congleton for a company which produces testing equipment used…
Expanding aircraft ground supply capability
EQUIPMENT for ground support services for aircraft is now a high proportion of Auto Diesels turnover, and is a rapidly expanding field. The company has recently acquired HML…
Clean Hydraulic Systems: An Approach to Design an Manufacture Thermal Control (TC) Company Ltd of Hove, Sussex
Fluid power systems can look good on the drawing board, go together well, work on commissioning, and then inexplicably fail. Alan Goldsmith FRMS, argues that hydraulic support…
The Development of Electromechanical Actuation for Aircraft Systems
J.A.P. White, CEng, MIMechE, MRAeSIn the past electromechanical actuators have been used to operate and control functions that demanded reasonably low power whilst the more arduous requirements of secondary and…
Equipment, Materials and Services
A NEW range of low dose inhibitors called Akrohibs are announced by Desmak Hall Ltd. These advanced formulations are designed to overcome corrosion of machined or formed metal…
Contracts
Cossor has received an order from the Ministry of Defence to supply the IFF (Identification Friend or Foe) transponder to the GR5, the new RAF version of the Harrier aircraft…
News and Views
THE Superseal Division of Kleeneze Ltd, of Hanham, Bristol, has completed a giant draught‐proofing contract — supplying brushstrip to seal the doors of one of Europe's largest…
People
MR William Hawkins has been appointed sales manager of the Display Systems Division of Ferranti Defense Systems Inc.
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- Prof Phil Webb