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April 1, 2009
Can Victorville Become a Maintenance and Mod Mecca?
This former U.S. Air Force Base in Southern California has an aggressive expansion plan plus the benefit of a favorable location. As Jim Worsham pages through his flip charts showing Southern California...
April 1, 2009
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...
April 1, 2009
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...
April 1, 2009
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...
April 1, 2009
Maintenance Tools
Headset Reduces Engine Noise for Aircraft Mechanics, Crews Pro Tech Technologies’ NoiseBuster active noise reduction (ANR) safety earmuff is designed to filter aircraft engine noise, providing ear protection...
April 1, 2009
Rays of Hope Amid the Gloom
While I was glad-handing at February’s Heli-Expo 2009 in Anaheim, the incessant need for helicopters to undergo intensive maintenance emerged as a major topic of discussion at the...
April 1, 2009
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...
April 1, 2009
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...
March 1, 2009
Editor’s Notebook: Crushing Barriers
Recently I saw an interesting clip on YouTube. It is a short video produced by NASA astronaut Andrew Thomas. The video shows a young engineer attempting to bring her ideas about a redesign of...
March 1, 2009
Reader Feedback
A Navigation Lesson In the spring of 1945 I was a cadet in the Advanced Flying Training program at Steward Field in Newburg, N.Y. Part of the course, near the end, was a long-range, daytime navigational...
March 1, 2009
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...
March 1, 2009
About People
Dassault has promoted Jean Kayanakis to vice president of Falcon worldwide spares. He was formerly director of eastern hemisphere sales. Kayanakis replaces Frank Youngkin , who was promoted to vice president...
March 1, 2009
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...
March 1, 2009
Calendar
March 2009 23 – 24 Human Factors in Aviation Maintenance, Phase I, Morristown, N.J. Grey Owl Aviation Consultants, 204-848-7353 or visit www.greyowl.com 26 – 28 Aeronautical Repair Station Association...
March 1, 2009
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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