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Some Notes on Aircraft Overhaul and Maintenance*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

Clifford H. Jackson
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Commercial aircraft, in common with all public transport, must be subjected to routine inspections and regularly overhauled in the interest of both safety and economy.

Aircraft maintenance and overhaul are not just the domestic concern of the organisation doing the work. There must be adherence to Standards approved by the Air Registration Board on behalf of the Ministry of Civil Aviation; and these Standards are the national interpretation of some of the directives issued by the International Civil Aviation Organisation as part of the international agreements regulating air safety. The regulations are neither rigid nor detailed, but they exist for the protection of air travellers against the remote chance of an operator failing to maintain airworthiness. In particular, they call for regular maintenance checks and, to procure annual reissue of the Certificate of Airworthiness, an annual overhaul or its equivalent.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 56 , Issue 500 , August 1952 , pp. 619 - 638
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1952

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Footnotes

*

These notes were first prepared for a talk to the 1950 Technical Conference of the International Air Transport Association. They were subsequently used for lectures to the Weybridge and Bristol branches of the Royal Aeronautical Society on 18th October 1950 and 17th February 1951.

Because the paper was written approximately two years ago it is not necessarily in accordance with present-day procedures in certain details (for example, B.O.A.C.'s fleet of aircraft has been increased), but the particular issues reviewed still exist and in essentials, such as the bases mentioned, the position is the same.

Some of the opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Corporation.

References

* The Yorks are now operating a freighter service to Singapore.—Ed.