Ageless Love Aging Fleets: A User's View

Abstract

Today around the world there is great interest in old fleet and in aging aircraft The reason for this is due mainly to budget constraints but also to other reasons as safety, and environmental laws. Interesting is to note that today one of the more sparkling area In aerospace industry is related to the MRO activities. But this type of industry requires today and much more in the future the setting of rules and the development of a huge know-how, as well the a/c manufacturer which will introduce as design parameter the "age" and not only the flight cycles or flight hours, as it is today, during the design phase.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADP014063

Entities

People

  • Francesco Marradi
  • Piertro A. Giuliani

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerospace Industry
  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Costs
  • Cycles
  • Environmental Law
  • Equations
  • Hard Copy
  • Life Cycle Costs
  • Life Cycles
  • Mathematics
  • Military Organizations
  • Standards
  • Technical Information Centers
  • United Kingdom
  • Vehicles
  • Weapon Systems

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Educational Psychology
  • Industrial Economics

Technology Areas

  • Space