Air Registration Board Report: Extracts from the Chairman's thirty‐first annual report

Abstract

The broad functions of the Air Registration Board are too well known, not only in this country but internationally, to need a detailed statement here. But at a time of extremely rapid change in air transport development exemplified by Concorde, new technology engines, jumbo jet design and all weather operations it is well to recall that, statistically, the bulk of the work of the ARB is related to maintaining adequate standards of safety on aircraft now flying and operating. Almost three‐quarters of the staff is primarily concerned with this day‐to‐day work on which much of the safety of existing operations depends. These activities go on all over the world and form a vital part of the service for which the ARB exists. Nevertheless, it is obviously of supreme importance to the future that the new projects shall have full attention. New problems arise, technical and administrative, many involving international collaboration; because of the great interest in these new projects, they bulk large in this Report.

Citation

(1968), "Air Registration Board Report: Extracts from the Chairman's thirty‐first annual report", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 40 No. 9, pp. 40-44. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb034419