BAE Systems has developed a new kind of tape that they predict can save their aerospace engineers $70 million over 20 years. Unlike heavy-duty aluminum masking tape, the pre-cut vinyl tape doesn’t leave heavy residue.
In other aerospace news, a NASA test plane is teaching the agency how to improve the safety of airplanes by ensuring their emergency locator transmitters will survive a crash.
In the UK, the accidental death of a Cambridge airport worker has been judged “avoidable.” Paul Bowers, 47, was killed in January of 2013 after a stack of Airbus parts, piled unusually high, collapsed while he was working in a warehouse.
A New Kind of Masking Tape Will Save the Aerospace Industry Millions
When engineers build planes, they use heavy aluminum masking tape to cover up surfaces during production. Now, engineers at BAE Systems have created a new kind of tape that leaves the surface clean when it’s peeled away—and it’s reckoned it will save them $70 million. But the industrial-grade …
Watch NASA Crash a Perfectly Good Plane In the Name of Science
On Wednesday, researchers at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia raised a Cessna 172 aircraft 100 feet in the air, suspended by cables, and then dropped it right down into an enormous pile of dirt. It smashed into the ground nose-first, flipping onto its back and delivering tremendous force to the pair of crash-test dummies within …
CAV Aerospace fined 600,000 for death of worker crushed by Airbus parts
Paul Bowers’ death at Cambridge airport judged avoidable and company only recognised dangers at subsidiary following the tragedy A British firm has been fined 600,000 for the “avoidable” death of a worker crushed by a dangerously high stack of Airbus parts. Paul Bowers, 47, was killed on 26 January 2013 when a pile of metal “stringers”, delivered to the warehouse in Hangar 14 of Cambridge airport, toppled on to him …
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