The collaboration between St .Petersburg Polytechnic University and Airbus Company in the area of airframe assembly process simulation continues since 2006.
One of the principal contributors to O&S cost is the airframe maintenance process.
The company, Aveos Fleet Performance, also announced that it had permanently closed its airframe maintenance operation.
An essential element of the airframe design and certification process is the full-scale fatigue test, where an airframe is subjected to realistic variable amplitude loads which are representative of those predicted to occur over the life-of-type.
A case study on the composite manufacturing process of an airframe of a novel unmanned joined-wing Sensorcraft is presented.
This paper investigates new ways to integrate piezoelectric energy harvesting elements onto carbon-fibre composite structures, using a new bonding technique with a vacuum bag system and co-curing process, for fabrication onto airframe structures.
In most cases, inspections performed during this process do not find any damage, and the airframe is returned to service until the next inspection interval.
"Every new airframe, or even an engine or a component, goes through a process of breaking itself in".
Operation of an aircraft includes airframe and engine performance.
An independent company, Flight Refuelling Ltd., was contracted to undertake the conversions to MRA4 standard, however BAE discovered that the Nimrod airframes supplied by the RAF were not built to a common standard and this considerably complicated the refurbishment process.
