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June 1, 2006
Editor's Notebook
Annual Maintenance: Is it Enough? Accident investigators are frustrated. When they find and pull from the wreckage the flight data recorder (FDR) and the cockpit voice recorder (CVR), they anticipate that the data and voices recorded therein will help them...
May 1, 2006
Aftermarket Outlook
Out of the Crisis of Costs, Opportunity The problem with predicting the size of the aftermarket industry is that it depends heavily on the price of fuel. Crank up the price of fuel and the aviation industry takes a dive, and with that plummet goes the...
April 10, 2006
If There's Smoke, There's Fire, But It's Hard to Tell How Much
When it comes to initial signs of in-flight fire and smoke, the more pilots know and the sooner they know it, the better, experts on the subject tell Air Safety Week. But one thing that could help is a new smoke/fumes/fire (SFF) checklist that groups like the...
April 1, 2006
Coping with Corrosion
Corrosion can turn millions of dollars' of safe, proven airframes into deadly accidents just waiting to happen. "In the United States alone, aircraft corrosion is a multi-billion dollar problem," says www.corrosion-doctors.org. "On some...
April 1, 2006
News
Pratt & Whitney Boldly Enters PMA Parts Manufacturing Market Highlighting the cutthroat nature of the aviation maintenance business, Pratt & Whitney announced that it will begin manufacturing replacement parts for a rival engine, the CFM56. Louis...
March 1, 2006
Plotting the Potential for PMA Parts
Along with maturity comes acceptance, and along with acceptance comes market potential. This premise would appear to apply to the parts manufacturer approval (PMA) industry today. PMA parts have been produced for 50 years, beginning with the demand for...
March 1, 2006
Reader Feedback
Export Compliance Sensationalized In response to James Careless' Export Compliance story (see AM, Nov. 2005, p. 40), I comment: Although Mr. Careless' article was valuable to your audience, as most companies don't fully realize the importance of this topic...
March 1, 2006
Wiring Inspections
Proposed to Assure Safety of Transport Aircraft It may be the most lengthy regulatory proposal in recent memory, although its impact is far less certain than the number of pages suggests. Nevertheless, because it deals with aircraft wiring, the proposal has...
December 1, 2005
Honeywell Sees Bright Business Aviation Future
Honeywell's annual forecast predicts deliveries of about 9,900 new business jets from 2005 through 2015 worth $156 billion. Honeywell released the results of its 19th business aviation forecast (the 14th publicly released Business Aviation Outlook) on...
December 1, 2005
Keep Track Of Those Tools
Every mechanic has awakened in the night to this nightmare: you've just buttoned up a beautiful aircraft after extensive work under tight time constraints and you are watching it taxi out for the first flight after the work. Just then you glance into...
December 1, 2005
Maintenance on the Fire Front
"Il est bon?" ("Is it fine?") a concerned TAT Industries maintenance technician asks the Canadair CL-415 firefighter pilot as he deplanes. The answer is "oui," and the technician, reassured on the repair she had performed a...
December 1, 2005
Safety Case Studies
Safety Case Studies examines aviation accidents that involve maintenance as either a probable cause or factor. The information in Safety Case Studies is obtained from National Transportation Safety Board reports, regulatory authorities and accident...
November 1, 2005
Change Agent
Honeywell's Adrian Paull In the 10 months since Rob Gillette took over as CEO of Honeywell, massive change has roiled the company and a large reorganization is underway. Where there used to be, in the customer and product support areas, multiple...
October 1, 2005
BRAWNY COMPUTERS Built for the Hangar
Like them or not, computers are becoming as much of a part of toolboxes as wrenches and sockets. And like most tools, there are many kinds of computers, namely those that have failed and those that will fail. “Statistics show that there’s a 35...
October 1, 2005
NDT - Medical Technology Enhances GE NDT
When Genenal Electric saw a need to offer its customers more advanced NDT (non-destructive testing) solutions, it found many of the answers for such products within its own suite of businesses. Realizing that technologies developed and used in businesses such...
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