New primer from Mankiewicz passes Fraunhofer IFAM's characteristic suitability test for aircraft coatings Astrid Günther In the recently completed BMWi project "Low Drag Aircraft in Operation - LDAinOP" the Fraunhofer IFAM from Bremen in cooperation with Airbus and Lufthansa Technik has developed an optimized test method for aircraft coatings. This [...]
Infrared drying of aircraft components on a large scale By Elodie Lutz By using infrared drying, an aircraft manufacturer shortens the drying time for the coating of aircraft landing flaps to one sixth of the previous burn-in time. "The system was developed for drying three jobs, which are run in [...]
The spray-on coatings, developed at the University of Michigan, cause ice to fall away from structures—regardless of their size—with just the force of a light breeze, or often the weight of the ice itself. A paper on the research is published in Science. The researchers overcame a major limitation of [...]
New technology extremely facilitates aircraft decorating Dutch robot manufacturer XYREC has developed a new robot-based printing technology for aircrafts. In February, the technology was successfully demonstrated in Hamburg by printing a large digital image on an Airbus A320 fuselage. Peter Boeijink, CEO of XYREC is certain: “The demonstration marks the [...]
Lufthansa Technik Intercoat GmbH has recently started automatic coating applying the "Advanced Epoxy Coating" process. Currently, the workpieces have to be rotationally symmetrical. These include, for example, parts of engines or valves - "components from everywhere" as Andreas Sauer, Managing Director of Lufthansa Technik Intercoat, says. For automatic coating, high [...]
From 14th – 15th May, the aircraft coating industry meets in Hamburg, Germany to discuss the latest innovations, techniques, materials and strategies. One higlight of the conference is the Guided Tour through the AIRBUS painting facilities on 13th May. The program is out now and features 23 technical presentations about [...]
West Star Aviation recently opened a new paint and maintenance hangar at the Chattanooga facility. With the completion of the new facilities, West Star now occupies over 162.000 m2 of space at the Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport. The completed expansion includes a new 60.000 m2 maintenance facility with 37.000 m2 of [...]
