Methods to reduce direct maintenance costs for commercial aircraft

Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 15-18

  Wu, Haiqiao ^a   Liu, Yi ^a   Ding, Yunliang ^a   Liu, Jia ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

Author keywords

Commercial aircraft; Diagnostic testing; Direct costs; Experts; Maintenance costs

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE INDUSTRY; AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURE; CIVIL AVIATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS; EQUIPMENT TESTING; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); FEATURE EXTRACTION; PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE;

COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFTS; DIAGNOSTIC TESTING; DIRECT MAINTENANCE COSTS (DMC);

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING;

EID: 1442359113     PISSN: 00022667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00022660410514964     Document Type: Article

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