The United States Air Force has awarded Wall Colmonoy Aerobraze Engineered Technologies Oklahoma City a five-year contract for the remanufacture of F-15 fighter aircraft fin and plate heat exchangers at the Mountain Home Air Force Base.
Air Transport Components, Gilbert, Ariz, announced plans to establish a new MRO facility in Tulsa, Oklahoma that will offer HVOF thermal spray coatings, grinding, NDT, and painting, and plans to expand these offerings in the future.
Nova Graphene, Nova Scotia, Canada, has been awarded two contracts by Canada’s Department of National Defense’s Innovation for Defense Excellence and Security program to develop graphene-enhanced materials to protect helicopter rotors from erosion & wear due to exposure to sand, ice, and water.
The spray-pattern phenomena is described here, and applies to all thermal spray processes.
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