According to Dr David Hammond of Cranfield's School of Engineering, a large build up of ice can alter the shape and performance of vital aircraft components.
"We are collecting in-service aircraft components to asses the remaining characteristics and capability in terms of stress and fatigue, " says Olivier Malavallon, project director of business development and change at Airbus.
The first phase of the partnership was to put together bids to supply aircraft components manufactured in China, said Zhang Wei, executive director of the supply-chain management and procurement division of AVIC International Holdings.
The company is planning to add 140 new jobs at Crosspointe and more than 100 additional jobs in Indiana manufacturing components for commercial aircraft engines.
Boeing assembles almost all of its aircraft in the United States, although it buys components from subcontractors around the world.
In northern and central Mexico German companies turn out electrical components for Europe, Canadian firms assemble aircraft parts and factory after factory makes televisions, fridge-freezers and much else.
The Rolls-Royce Crosspointe facility is a center of excellence for advanced manufacturing of precision-engineered engine discs and other components for some of the most sophisticated aircraft in the world.
The company makes fluid power systems for industrial, mobile and aircraft equipment, as well as electrical systems and components for power quality, Its ROE comes up to 16.6% and its dividend yield is a solid 3.3%.
Putting less focus on these items will permit airport screeners to focus on looking for bomb components, which present a greater threat to aircraft.
Pistole said the changes are in keeping with his "risk-based security" initiative and will permit airport screeners to focus on looking for bomb components, which present a greater threat to aircraft, instead of lesser threats.
In January, the administration invoked a nonproliferation law to stop the European Defense, Aerospace and Space Company (EADS) from selling its C-295 troop transport aircraft to Caracas, citing the planes' many American-made components.
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Beechcraft also says that Embraer will be making the bulk of the plane in Brazil and shipping key components to the U.S., while they would have made the entire aircraft in Kansas.
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