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SwRI receives $23 million in U.S. Air Force contracts to sustain aging aircraft

SAN ANTONIO — November 4, 2024 —Southwest Research Institute has received two contracts totaling $23 million from the U.S. Air Force for a program to address aging aircraft structures and material ...
Aviacionline

EASA Issues Emergency Alert for 16 Airbus A380s Over Wing Crack Findings

The directive targets early-production aircraft after cracks were detected that could compromise structural integrity. Qantas ...
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SwRI receives up to $250 million to sustain aging US military aircraft structure

SwRI will continue its decades-long support of aging military aircraft with a new $250 million Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract. The contract will continue aircraft life extension ...
Aviation Week

Structural Integrity Factors Can Cause Premature Failure, Part 3

The turbulent air above a wildfire is punishing to aircraft structures. The excessive and frequent loads place an inordinate number of loading cycles on an aircraft, leading to accelerated crack ...
WMAZ

'Doctors of the aircraft' at Robins Air Force Base safeguard aircraft integrity and crew safety

ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. — Non-destructive inspectors, or NDIs, are the Air Force’s behind-the-scenes “doctors of the aircraft,” using technology to find hidden problems before they become dangerous ...
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Aging of U.S. Air Force Aircraft: Final Report

Suggested Citation: "Part I Problem Definition and Status of the Aging Force." National Research Council. 1997. Aging of U.S. Air Force Aircraft: Final Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies ...
insider.si.edu

Structural integrity of aging airplanes / S.N. Atluri, S.G. Sampath, P. Tong (eds.)

Papers presented at the International Symposium on Structural Integrity of Aging Airplanes, held Mar. 20-22, 1990, in Atlanta, Ga., and sponsored by the Georgia Institute of Technology, Center for ...