Did you ever wonder where the new car you just ordered was being built and even more, when the wonderful process of parts coming together to grow into an automobile, your automobile, started. Not to the hour but at least to the day. I guess if you order a Rolls-Royce or some other exclusive car,… Continue reading Wouldn’t you love to know…
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Airfield Engineering Asset Maintenance – A sector report
This article was compiled by Bryan Camoens and Ed Haines for the Airfield Engineering and Asset Maintenance 2011 Conference. You can contact Bryan here. To visit the conference web-site, click here. Airport engineers, operational and maintenance heads are working under extremely challenging operational scheduling and cost constraints. In addition new, larger aircraft types and higher… Continue reading Airfield Engineering Asset Maintenance – A sector report
Your project delayed? Come join the club!
It must be horrible to be the project manager of major aircraft programs these days. Look at the Airbus A380, the A400M, the Boeing 787 or the 747-8. They were all delayed by several years and the reasons were often quite pedestrian (like incompatible software or strength calculation errors). It will fall on the Airbus… Continue reading Your project delayed? Come join the club!
What would Adam Smith advise to modern airlines?
Adam Smith as we all know was an 18th century Scottish scholar with a number of famous books to his name, among them The Wealth of Nations. In this tome, Smith argues that self-interest and free, competitive markets are powerful forces for prosperity and the common good. But he does, for good measure, also demand… Continue reading What would Adam Smith advise to modern airlines?
747
By Joe Sutter with Jay Spenser Publisher: Smithsonian Books ISBN-13: 978-0-06-088241-9 For some time now we could read a lot about the development problems afflicting the latest big aircraft types. Just think of the Airbus A380, the 787 or the A400M military transport. Proud projects yet they started life with what appears to be more… Continue reading 747
Interesting people, unusual flight plans…
Kathleen O’Brien – Houston we have a problem… Kathleen O’Brien is an Associate Technical Fellow with Boeing Commercial Airplanes in Seattle. What were you dreaming of becoming when you were a kid? I loved to read and becoming a librarian looked like a good choice. You know how it is, little girls did not have… Continue reading Interesting people, unusual flight plans…
Boeing 787 Dreamliner takes to the air
Late by 28 months but finally in the air! 15 December 2009 will no doubt be a memorable day for Boeing and the whole industry for that matter: the 787 has finally taken to the air, its maiden flight hopefully bringing an end to the series of problems the program had to contend with over… Continue reading Boeing 787 Dreamliner takes to the air