Editor’s Notebook
BY IAN PARKER, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
We’re listening and we’ll
provide your vital information
Tradeshows are great places to feel the high-technology and ‘clean’ overhaul center
Bringing you the mood of an industry and few could have for the CFM56 family and the V2500-A5
latest information
been more interesting and positive than engine. It will be at Sabiha Gokcen Airport
MRO Europe which took place in Hamburg on the Anatolian peninsula about 70km east
on maintenance recently. And yet the world is supposed of Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport.
technology, business
to be in recession. Gloom and doom are These stories show why we will be making
diseases which are easily caught, but there Aviation Maintenance truly international.
and management was very little evidence of that at the show Having been an aerospace journalist/
for both military and
- quite the reverse. editor for 30 years, there’s one thing I’m
It was especially interesting for this constantly short of – readers telling me what
commercial aircraft publication because we have new owners they want. And that’s why I’m repeating
around the globe.
and a largely new team and a single main that request here. You’re all busy people so
intention - to ensure Aviation Maintenance we need to know what you want to know
is the number one publication in its field, – and therefore provide it. My e-mail is
worldwide. Note that last word in particular
news@avmain-mag.com. I’m expecting an
– worldwide. And that’s why we want to hear overflowing inbox.
from you. Other members of our ‘dream team’
Adrian Broadbent, owner of Aerospace include Dan Brindley who will sell ads in
Media which now publishes Aviation the US and Jina Lawrence who joins us from
Maintenance, is an entrepreneur of courage the competition to cover everywhere else.
and superb timing. That’s why he’s just There will be familiar names such as writers
acquired the bimonthly magazine. It will be Dave Jensen in the US and Thierry Dubois
a formidable team effort. in France as well as new ones. And there’s
Walking the show floor at MRO Hamburg, me – plane crazy you could say. I’ve been
it was evident to me that interesting new and lucky enough to write about and fly planes
positive stories were emerging everywhere. for 30 years. I instruct on the Yak 18T and 52
For example Jose Luis Ruiz de Castaneda and do a bit of post maintenance test flying.
de le Llave, executive vice president of So you could say I’m an oily-hands editor –
maintenance and engineering of Maintenance not that this will bias my coverage towards
Iberia will have some big news soon, but he smaller aircraft.
wasn’t quite ready to go fully public at the I look forward to hearing from you all
show. Watch Aviation Maintenance closely and ensuring Aviation Maintenance is No.1
to get the best coverage first. in its field. And if you’ll let me fly a few of
In other examples the Fokker Services your planes, I’d really like that too. See you
component maintenance facility at Schiphol, in Orlando for NBAA.
AM
the Netherlands announced that it had
been listed as an Authorized Boeing Repair
Station. Delta TechOps will perform engine
maintenance on the Ethiopian Airlines
fleet. Pratt & Whitney with its joint venture
partner Turkish Technic will open a new
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