Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology

Burcher, Glen

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THE need for and installation of smaller, lighter weight components in Aerospace applications has become more and more evident, especially in recent developments such as Tornado ADV and IDS, Hawk 200 and EFA.

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A workstation designed for a wide range of precision micro‐assembly tasks developed by Sifam's fibre optics division, is now being marketed internationally by the company.

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REX, Thompson & Partners, the Farnham‐based computer and engineering consultancy, have announced the full release of an important addition to their sophisticated software verification and testing package, MALPAS. This latest enhancement is an automatic translator to enable programs in the widely‐used Pascal computer language to be analysed more easily.

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A significant contract, awarded by Pilatus Britten‐Norman Ltd, to equip five Turbine Defender aircraft with Racal Avionics' advanced navigational equipment, has recently been announced.

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A digital tuning interface has been added to the Sivers‐IMA YIG‐tuned oscillator family to give a direct microprocessor system interface. Called the PM7048/49 series, the oscillator modules are available from Anglia Microwaves Ltd. and provide a frequency coverage from 2 to 8 GHz (7048) and from 8 to 18GHz(7049).

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A new process for attaching surface‐mounted components to ceramic circuit boards has been devised and successfully developed by British Aerospace. A provisional patent (No 8727926) has been granted for this new attachment technique.

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FORMED almost 30 years ago as a specialist power supply company, MPL Power Systems plc is well known for the design and manufacture of power systems for industrial, computer and avionic applications.

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THORN EMI will be showing its new easy to use, extended warranty multi‐channel laboratory data recorder, the Multiband Data Recorder series (MDR), to be unveiled to users for the first time at Farnborough (Stand 3A7).

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HISTORY is replete with records of ships and aircraft which vanished without trace. One might think that this is ancient history, but it is as true today as it was during the days of sail and biplanes. The numbers may be different but it is a sad truth that lives are lost without anyone knowing where or when.

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The first flight of an aircraft fueled solely by hydrogen became a reality on Sunday, June 19, 1988, at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport. The aircraft was flown by Mr. William H. “Bill” Conrad, and the event was witnessed and recorded by the National Aeronautics Association's representative, Mr. Peter Foster.