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    Royal Aircraft Establishment Technical Report 72056 Birdstrikes

    I believe the report is available from the UK National Archives - ref: AVIA 6/24014 . They can provide estimate for copying the report. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk I'd tell you more but after I registered at that website it doesn't seem to want to work with Safari. [sad]
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    Heated Germanium Window Assembly

    I'm trying to figure out how to specify a direct heated Germanium sensor window for rugged LWIR sensor. I can't use a thin-film/kapton heater placed around the perimeter of the clear aperture. I've read it is possible to heat the Ge window directly but there is a dearth of data online about...
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    Best Practices for Technical Work Assignments

    >>is that the initial bottoms-up bid, from the actual executors of the work is often correct from the get-go, and the management "challenges" and "trims" << Ha! IRstuff has been around the block a few times :-)
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    Black Box

    Not sure if the original question was answered, but do a search on "TSO-C155". Will show FAA Technical Standard Order for Recorder Independent Power Supply. Power back-up source is now required to allow recorder to continue operating should acft power be lost. It's either a separate unit...
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    Aerospace Engineer

    All things being equal, if I had resumes of two newly graduated engineers and one had a few years under his/her belt as an A&P, that candidate would be my first choice to interview.
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    Potting agent at 25,000 ft

    PRC-DeSoto (PPG) has a broad line of aerospace sealants/potting compounds. http://corporateportal.ppg.com/NA/Aerospace/Sealants/
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    What's the plus symbol (+) on face of avionics equipment?

    This seems to be on older panels with discrete controls/displays only. I used to work on a Nav CDU and the "+" symbol was located directly over the connector for the panel backlighting. In this case, it looked like a mini-RCA plug embedded in the panel which slotted into the receptacle on the...
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    Electric Linear Actuator Vendor Needed

    Aerospace approved components from : Danaher Motion http://www.danahermotion.com/industry_solutions/aerospace_defense/ Artus http://www.psartus.com/

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