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Delta Air Lines installed sensors on the WiFi antenna area of an aircraft to test structural health monitoring. Could this be a step toward moving airframe MRO to a more predictive maintenance model, ...

This article is a condensed version of an article that appeared in the November/December 2022 issue of Chip Scale Review. Adapted with permission. Read the original ...

When a major aerospace manufacturer won a contract for producing a radar dome to sit atop the Boeing 737-700 aircraft, the company turned to KineticSystems for help in developing the necessary ...