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| 02.01.2006 |
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HUMS: Health And Usage Monitoring Systems
Health and usage monitoring systems (HUMS), initially developed for the larger twin-engine helicopters flown to offshore rigs in the North Sea, are becoming more affordable, more capable and more commonplace in the rotorcraft industry. These systems, which...
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| 01.01.2006 |
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About People
Shane Eddy has been appointed vice president of customer support and services and deputy chief service officer for Bell Helicopter Textron. He has been with Bell since 1994. Stevens Aviation has promoted Rich Morgan to director, modifications and completions...
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| 01.01.2006 |
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News
Vantage Engine Receives Production Certificate More than a year and a half after awarding a type certificate to Superior Air Parts for its 360-cubic inch Vantage piston engine, the FAA has finally signed off on the engine's production certificate. The Vantage...
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| 09.01.2005 |
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Hardware - Intevia Intelligent Fasteners Save Time, But Will It Lock Out MROs?
Software-controlled intelligent fasteners: that's what Textron Fastening Systems (TFS) has achieved with its new Intevia latching system. Using a powered, radio-controlled microprocessor electrically connected to a piece of shape memory alloy in a wire form...
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| 09.01.2005 |
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Sandia Labs and the Science of Non-Destructive Inspection
If Missouri's motto is "Show Me," then New Mexico, or at least Albuquerque and the areas around the FAA Airworthiness Assurance NDI Validation Center at Sandia National Laboratories (AANC), should have the motto, "Prove It To Me,"...
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| 09.01.2005 |
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Workplace - Help Finding Help
You can't hardly pick up an aviation magazine or visit an industry website without reading about the ongoing cutbacks and layoffs that are plaguing the major airlines' maintenance operations. Thousands of highly qualified maintenance technicians are...
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| 05.01.2005 |
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How to Start a Quality Control Program
How to Start a Quality Control Program Perfect mechanics (and you know who you are) don't need a quality control program. You do everything right the first time, every time. Your tech manuals are memorized, saving a lot of otherwise wasted research time...
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| 04.01.2005 |
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A Step above A&P Mechanic
A Step above A&P Mechanic Many of us have been pushing over the years for some type of advanced recognition from the FAA for A&P mechanics who have training and/or qualifications above that required for the basic ratings. The FAA developed the AMT...
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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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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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Helicopters
Big Al's "Heads-Up" Award The highlight of my helicopter-logging day came when I finally got to set that last turn of stupid logs down in the log landing and head for Service. Eight hours in the saddle was plenty for a guy who's long in tooth. My...
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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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| 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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| 09.01.2004 |
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Helicopters
Rolls-Royce FIRST Network Sees Continued Success Late last year, Rolls-Royce began the process of launching a new Model 250 customer-service effort called the full-service integrated Rolls-Royce service team or FIRST. The new network comprises Rolls-Royce's...
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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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| 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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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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