European and U.S. regulators have expanded a software-upgrade mandate to CFM International Leap-1B engines that ensures Boeing 737 Max-powered aircraft will not experience engine-fan-speed issues caused by extremely cold weather.
Heatcon says its Smart Susceptor system makes repairs easier through advances in control and heating technology--as well as enables repair that previously were not possible.
Air New Zealand engineers have scheduled a strike Dec. 21 that threatens to disrupt the carrier’s operations on one of its busiest travel days, although further negotiations are planned in an effort to resolve the contract dispute.
To more closely integrate its repair work under the Leki Aviation umbrella, the company has opened two new Leki Tech repair facilities in the USA and UK.
As it celebrates its tenth anniversary this year, TP Aerospace has launched plans to open 11 new global locations by 2020. Thomas Ibsoe, president of TP Aerospace, which is an aftermarket supplier of wheels and brakes, speaks with Lindsay Bjerregaard about the Green Sunrise plan and where the company is looking to grow.
The Naples, Italy-based MRO, which has had a productive few months of expanding airline contracts and capability, plans to adopt a similar formula going forward.
The U.S. midterm elections are putting new leaders into key congressional aviation committees—including some of whom have criticized foreign repair stations in the past.
Uptake and Rolls-Royce are about half way through a two-month proof of concept to ascertain whether a different data-science approach will improve Trent engines’ reliability—including detecting problems before they occur.
Wolfgang Mayrhuber led the rehabilitation team charged with engineering Lufthansa’s recovery in the early 1990s. Subsequently, he was elected chairman of the Executive Board of Lufthansa Technik when it became an independent entity in 1994. He is credited evolving LHT into a global supplier of MRO services.