Discussion of Factors Controlling Army Helicopter Reliability

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1977-09-01
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Rummel, K.
House, T.
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The Army's interest in significant aviation improvements actually started, or at least gained steam, in the 1960's during the extended combat we had in southeast Asia where a lot of problems in the utilization of the rotary wing aircraft came to a head, and I'll talk about those in more detail. What I would like to do is go through how the Army has responded to those problems that were revealed, through R&D and even more specifically in the diagnostics area. When I say diagnostics, what I'm talking about is the second category of NDI that I see, the first category being the one I think that most people here have a prime interest in and that is the one time, static inspection during manufacture, a verification of quality control. The other type is the repetitive in-service inspection.

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Interdisciplinary Program for Quantitative Flaw Definition Annual Reports
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Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 UTC 1977
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