TUESDAY, 22 – SEPTEMBER 2009
10:00 am Summary of all FAA Regulatory Requirements for NDT
Al Broz – FAA Chief Scientific Technical Advisor NDE
11:00 am State of the FAA – AFS-300, NDT, and AD Compliance
Otto Hill – FAA AFS-300
11:30 am Tale of the Tails – Managing the Horizontal and Vertical Stabilizer Issues on the MD88/90 Fleets
David Piotrowski – Delta Air Lines Technical Operations
1:30 pm NDI Inspection of FRP & Honeycomb Structures - Airbus Improved Set of Inspection Procedures
Wolfgang Bisle, Helge Hicken, Dieter Scherling, Clemens Steinberg – Airbus Operations
2:00 pm NDI Activities in the Commercial Aircraft Composite Repair Committee (CACRC)
Dennis Roach – FAA Airworthiness Assurance Center Sandia National Labs
2:30 pm Cleaning and FPI Inspections Standard Practices Manual Revisions
Jeff Stevens – Pratt & Whitney
3:30 pm Inspection of Composite Structures & Airbus In-Service Support
Alain Tisseiner and Rolland Filaquier – Airbus Industries
4:00 pm New Developments in the use of Eddy Current Array and Ultrasonic Phased-Array Technologies for Aircraft Maintenance
Andre Lamarre, Olympus NDT
4:30 pm Wireless Remote Expert NDE System & Method
Bob Lasser – Imperium Jeff Kollgaard, William Motzer, Peter Hellenbrand, Gary Georgeson – The Boeing Company
5:00 pm FAA R&D NDT Program for Composites
Paul Swindell and Dave Galella – FAA Technical Center
WEDNESDAY, 23 – September 2009
9:00 am Awareness, Reporting, and Assessment of Significant Impact Events Involving Aircraft Structures
Howard Hall – FAA Seattle Aircraft Certification Office
9:30 am Improved Detection with Pitch-Catch (Low Frequency) Bondtesters
Nathan Smith, Jeff Kollgaard – Boeing,
Laurence Dickinson – CSIRO
10:00 am Business Case Studies for Justifying Alternate NDT Methods and NDT Equipment Purchases
David Piotrowski, Delta Air Lines Technical Operations
11:00 am Survey of Transport Airplane Structural Repairs and Alterations Michel D. Bode – Sandia National Labs Airworthiness Assurance NDI Validation Center, Walt Sippel, FAA ANM-115, John Bakuckas, FAA AJP-6360
11:30 am Update of using Process Compensated Resonance Testing (PCRT) at Delta TechOps
Lem Hunter, Leanne Jauriqui – Vibrant NDT,
David Piotrowski – Delta Air Lines Technical Operations
12:00 pm Proactive Compliance: Attaining Cost Effective Responses to Manufacturer Issued Service Bulletins in a Maintenance Environment
Robert Stevens, Dave Carnes, Sam Tucker – United Airlines
1:30 pm Progress in the Bond Testing Technology
Andre Lamarre – Olympus NDT
2:00 pm An Operator’s Perspective on Fluorescent Penetrant Inspection of Critical Rotating Parts
Tim Shoemake, John Lee, Tommy Eason,
and David Piotrowski – Delta Air Lines Technical Operations
2:30 pm Ultrasonic Leak Detection for Aircraft Pneumatic Systems
Alex Melton – Northwest Airlines, Inc. a Subsidiary of Delta Air Lines, Inc.
3:30 pm Monitoring Thermal Exposure and Health of Composites
David Paul Shelley, Jeff Thompson,
Paul Vahey and Greg Werner – The Boeing Company
4:00 pm WASP – Wide Area Survey Platform, A Robotic Actuator for Magneto Optical Inspection of Rivet Flaws on Airframes
Giovanni Nino – QUEST Integrated, Inc.
4:30 pm Optimization of Eddy Current and Ultrasonic Phased Array Probes Through Computer Simulation
Evgueni Todorov, Roger Spencer – Edison Welding Institute
5:00 pm Exfoliation Corrosion Inspection Method on Airbus A320 Fleet
Keith Phillips – Airbus Industries
THURSDAY, 24 – September 2009
9:00 am FPI Tutorial – This is a continuing educational presentation / workshop
Lisa Brasche – CASR Program Manager, Iowa State University