Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology

TYE, WALTER; LLOYD, TED

doi: 10.1108/eb035722pmid: N/A

This final article introduces some examples of safety assessments which, for one reason or another, vary from the conventional patterns. Some are still being developed, for instance methods of assessing active controls, and problems associated with the use of digital computation. The article finishes with a glimpse of possible future trends.

doi: 10.1108/eb035723pmid: N/A

Corrosion of metals affects us all, whether just as a nuisance by tarnishing silverware or rusting bright parts of cars, or as a serious financial loss through corrosion of pipes, girders or cladding of buildings.

doi: 10.1108/eb035724pmid: N/A

A hushed silence, followed by animated discussion. On the screens of three monitors digits and pictures flickered. Loudspeakers transmitted commands and responses. Excitement in the control centre: SPACELAB was “flying” for the first time. Aboard the laboratory were Ulf Merbold, one of the three European candidate payload specialists and Owen Garriott, one of the NASA mission specialists.

doi: 10.1108/eb035725pmid: N/A

The first A310 Airbus wing was on April 7 removed from its jig at a ceremony at British Aerospace's Broughton factory near Chester.

DASSAULT, SERGE

doi: 10.1108/eb035726pmid: N/A

The 34th International Air and Space Show of Paris‐Le Bourget Mill open its doors on 4th June. How will this Show differ from the 1979 Show?

doi: 10.1108/eb035727pmid: N/A

Monday, February 23, 1981. A British cargo flight crashed near Billerica, Massachusetts, after the aircraft took off with an accumulation of ice and snow on the airframe and then encountered moderate to severe icing conditions in flight.

doi: 10.1108/eb035728pmid: N/A

A further part of BS 1728 Method for analysis of aluminium and aluminium alloys has just been published by the British Standards Institution. The addition to the series is Part 25 Titanium (spectrophotometric chromotropic acid method) which covers the determination of titanium in the range 0.005 to 0.30 per cent. It is identical in purpose and range of titanium content with Part 13 of the series, which has been rendered obsolete by analytical progress and withdrawn. Part 25 is identical with ISO 1118.