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.
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.
Passenger-door seal damage caused by a catering truck created an unnerving onboard noise that led a Qantas AirbusA380 to return to Sydney 2 hr. into a scheduled flight to the U.S., an Australian Transport Safety Board (ATSB) report found.
Aviation Week speaks with Air New Zealand CEO Christopher Luxon to find out more about how the new Auckland to Chicago route will be serviced and what the airline’s expansion plans entail.
From the exhibition floor at MRO Europe 2018, David Lefebvre, mechanical engineer for Gastops, demonstrates the company's ChipCHECK analyzer. Through the same technology the Mars rover uses to analyze rocks, ChipCHECK allows rapid on-site identification of turbine particles to monitor equipment degradation.
From the exhibition floor at ap&m Europe 2018, Phil Edwards, senior instructor and engineer for NDT at Testia demonstrates two of the company’s Smart NDT tools. The ThicknessTool is used for post-blend scanning and the Smart UE1 can perform ultrasonic and eddy current tests.
From the exhibition floor at MRO Americas 2018, Gary K. Dudley, ExxonMobil's global grease product technical advisor, demonstrates the results of grease tests applicable to the aviation industry.
At a celebration for Hainan Airlines’ first transcontinental biofuel 787 flight--between Beijing and Chicago--Darrin Morgan, Boeing’s sustainable biofuel strategy director, talks to Aviation Week at Chicago O'Hare about the future of biofuels within aviation.
New aircraft technologies call for upgraded testing capabilities, and these aircraft test equipment providers are bringing adaptable solutions to the table.
From the exhibition floor at MRO Europe 2017, Felipe Cano Ventas, Commercial Director at Buildair, discusses the company's inflatable portable aircraft hangars and their value for the MRO industry.
Inside MRO got a look behind the scenes at the line maintenance operations of American Airlines at Chicago O'Hare International Airport. Watch to learn more about new hangar construction, ETOPS checks and more.
The condensed interview: Ari Kokko, logistics manager at Finnair’s maintenance, repair and overhaul division Finnair Technical Services, on developing an RFID system with SR Technics.  
