Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 61 Issue 6
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For the Want of a Drill the Day was Lost
G.H. HERRINGTONWITH conventional machine tools using conventional tooling, if a single tool was not available the problem was “inconvenient”.
Intel Darpa to Develop Prototype of 2000‐Processor Computer System Using New Intel Superchip: Each Processor To Have Power of Cray‐1
INTEL Scientific Computers announced that it had signed an agreement with the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop a prototype of a system that will ultimately…
Core N/C Programming Software
NEWLY announced by CADLINC is Version 6.2 of CIM CAM, the N/C programming software which lies at the heart of the company's range of CIM (computer‐integrated manufacturing…
Swiss Efficiency Aided by PC‐DRAFT
SWISSAIR'S motto is ‘Quality wins’ and at Swissair's maintenance facility at Zurich Airport, the staff there can maintain and paint a plane in the same hanger and using the same…
Computerised Production Scheduling System
BAeCAM, part of British Aerospace (Military Aircraft) Ltd, Preston, Lancashire, has signed a distributorship agreement with Pritsker Corporation, Indianapolis, USA, to market and…
REGMA Announces New Generation Scanning and Conversion Systems
A new multi‐user scanning and conversion series — enabling high speed conversion from existing engineering drawings and maps for use in CADD databases — has been launched by REGMA…
200,000 Pages Keep Lockheed Productive
PRIOR to Lockheed's involvement in the Shuttle Processing Contract, which includes the provision of operating system and application software to support pre‐flight testing and…
Stellar changes the Face of Graphics Supercomputing: Announcing the Application Visualization System: Interactive Visualization without Graphics Programming
STELLAR Computer Inc. today introduced the Application Visualization System (AVS), a next‐generation software system for rapid, easy visualization of scientific and engineering…
The Use of Cubic Boron Nitride in the Production Grinding Field (Part 1)
John M. BarnardProduction Engineers have been continually seeking to find new and improved ways of converting an unmachined component into its finished design. Much of their time is spent…
The Tilt‐Rotor in Europe
Terry Ford, CEng, MRAeSDESPITE many innovative suggestions over the years designed to fill the gap between conventional fixed wing aircraft and helicopters and with the exception of the Harrier for…
America West Ready to Blast Away With Largest Commercial Dry Stripping and Painting Facility
America West Airlines has opened a state‐of‐the‐art maintenance facility with a paint bay that strips aircraft paint faster, safer and more cost‐effectively than by chemical…
Equipment, Materials and Services
Polyformes Ltd, one of Europe's leading specialist fabricators of closed cell polyethylene foams, are now supplying a range of aluminium alloy and plastics containers for cushion…
Contracts
Dornier Luftfahrt GmbH and Honeywell, Phoenix/Arizona, have reached an agreement, in which Honeywell will supply the advanced avionics systems for the Dornier 328.
People
Amphenol Corporation, a subsidiary of LPL Investment Group Inc, announce the appointment of T.R. Burton as vice president/‐general manager of Bendix Connector Operations, Sidney…
News and Views
MPE Ltd the engineering, electronic power supply and filter manufacturer announce that they have acquired Pyatt & Pearce Ltd, a leading U.K. manufacturer of screened rooms and…
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0002-2667Online date, start – end:
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- Prof Phil Webb