Model Airplanes

Taking an older aircraft off an engine program almost certainly seals its fate, guaranteeing that it will be parted out when the engines are due for a heavy inspection.

Background:

Of the four most recently parted out Falcon 50s, three were not on an engine program. Even high-pedigree, single-owner Falcon 900Bs are not immune. The two most recent 900Bs that were parted out also were not on an engine program. In fact, Falcon 50s and 900Bs are 75 percent more likely to be taken out of service and parted out if they do not have an engine program when the engines come due for heavy inspections.

The most expensive part of any aircraft is always the engines; a maxim becoming truer as the aircraft age and the airframes depreciate. If they are not enrolled on an engine program, then there is very little value left in the aircraft when one, two or all three engines are due for a major inspection or shop visit.

Here is a standard example: a 1988 model year Falcon 900B that would be worth $3.5m if on an engine program is now worth $1.8m because it is not on an engine program and has engines coming due for MPIs or CZIs. The aircraft also has a C check due, and needs paint, interior and avionics upgrades. When everything is added up, the inspections and modifications will cost more than the airplane is currently worth. Therefore, the decision is made to part it out. If it had been enrolled on

Article source: http://www.aviationpros.com/press_release/12371999/engine-assurance-program-eap-powering-aircraft-fuels-the-industry

Carl Peters guarantees you already have one of his products inside your house. His New Process Fibre Co. makes millions of tiny parts for La-Z-Boy recliners, Black and Decker drills, Electrolux vacuum cleaners, Lexmark printers, Kohler faucets and dozens of other household-name products.

If you own a blender, a freezer, a furnace, a food processor, a golf club, a desk, a couch or a sink, odds are there’s a New Process Fibre part deep inside it.

Ditto if you own an automobile or an airplane.

That’s not all. Tucked within some bullets and hand grenades are parts born inside New Process’ warren of steel and concrete buildings just past a cornfield on a back road in Greenwood.

The company shipped more than $10 million worth of parts around the world last year, but the owner said most of Greenwood’s 1,085 residents are unaware it exists. Even many longtime residents couldn’t tell you what it’s been making for 90 years, he said.

Greenwood native F. Carl Porter founded New Process Fibre in 1927, the year the Model A debuted, the Holland Tunnel opened, the Yankees swept the World Series and Charles Lindbergh made the first nonstop solo trans-Atlantic flight.

Porter, the son of one of the three local businessmen who founded the Greenwood Trust Co., created a new process to produce vulcanized fiber for use as an electrical insulator. The process flopped, but the name stuck.

The early company produced

Article source: http://www.delawarebusinesstimes.com/greenwood-manufacturer-makes-parts-bullets-blenders/

‘)})();
//–

Older business jets are increasingly being parted out.

Having weathered five recessions in the business jet industry, Vick is about to check off another.

Article source: http://aviationweek.com/nbaa-2017/global-jet-capital-optimistic-bizjet-market

Lost in all the hubbub of US aircraft giant Boeing applying for and receiving punitive duties on Bombardier’s C series passenger jet was the news item regarding a Bombardier subsidiary’s entry into the fighter jet business. Pilotless prototypes of the  Volant XF-4a have been flying for more than six years, however the larger single-seat manned fighter has now made its appearance in the skies near Valcourt, QC (near the birthplace of Joseph-Armand Bombardier).

Finally there is an explanation for the long delay in making a decision regarding the replacement of our aging jet fighters: Harper and Trudeau were waiting until our own fighter passed its test flights. This has nothing to do with a similar inability in deciding how to replace our even older naval vessels and don’t even mention the tanks. The only thing we have been doing is making LAVs – but then we sell them to the bad guys. Go figure.

In typical Canadian fashion it was the small entrepreneur who came up with the idea for new fighter. Remember Gerald Bull and the Space Gun he tried to sell to Saddam? Fortunately no one assassinated Joseph-Armand and he lived into retirement, spending many of his last days making balsawood models of his airplane.

Detailed drawings found in J-A’s workshop at his retirement home in Three Pines in the Eastern Townships, show that Armand was thinking about a flying machine early in his career. His initial drawings looked very much like the fictional flying saucers of yore but as his

Article source: https://www.baytoday.ca/columns/perspectives/volant-xf-4b-735541