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Future Aircraft Inspection Technologies
Future Aircraft Inspection Technologies
Feb 7, 2008
Imagine for a moment the airplane of the future, a flying machine all but freed from scheduled inspections, able to keep flying because of sets of sophisticated sensors imbedded within it.
In perhaps a decade or so, a mechanic might do a walk around inspection, much as the first officer does at pre-flight, just before departure. But this walkaround would be far more probing. Armed with a wireless ultrasound device, "your technician walks past the airplane and a little chip beeps at him," envisions Michael Moles, senior technology manager for Olympus NDT. "He knows then and there whether there's a problem." This, contends the veteran NDT executive, "will tend to be the future," a future predicated not so much on periodic inspection, as on structural health monitoring.
Full report here
Feb 7, 2008
Imagine for a moment the airplane of the future, a flying machine all but freed from scheduled inspections, able to keep flying because of sets of sophisticated sensors imbedded within it.
In perhaps a decade or so, a mechanic might do a walk around inspection, much as the first officer does at pre-flight, just before departure. But this walkaround would be far more probing. Armed with a wireless ultrasound device, "your technician walks past the airplane and a little chip beeps at him," envisions Michael Moles, senior technology manager for Olympus NDT. "He knows then and there whether there's a problem." This, contends the veteran NDT executive, "will tend to be the future," a future predicated not so much on periodic inspection, as on structural health monitoring.
Full report here
Labels: Aerospace-Engineering, Logistics-Transportation-Engineering
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