Air Carrier MRO Handbook (AVIATION) - Hardcover

Hessburg, Jack

9780071361330: Air Carrier MRO Handbook (AVIATION)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0071361332 ISBN 13: 9780071361330

Publisher: McGraw Hill, 2001

This is the first practical, all-inclusive training and education handbook in the MRO (Maintenance, Repair, Overhaul) field, the most critical and evolving area in the aviation industry. It comprehensively explains and illustrates MRO in air carrier operations, demonstrating how it works - and how MRO managers, executives, engineers and technicians can work within the industry's guidelines and interdependent network to facilitate partnerships, leadership, and profits. It also includes charts, graphs, forms, tables, data, statistics, and figures pertaining to air carrier MRO.

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From the Back Cover:

Jack Hessburg has the ideal background to provide a valuable reference book on air carrier maintenance operations. His long career at Boeing was centered around worldwide customer airline support, and his eventual assignment as the principal maintenance representative on the B-777 design team helped Boeing provide a customer-friendly, easy- to-maintain, and extremely reliable airplane. Jack Hessburg knows his subject and this book can help anyone to understand the complex issues of U.S. air carrier operations.

'Gordon Bethune, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer

Continental Airlines, Inc.

"A must read."

Frank Jackman, Editor in Chief, O&M magazine

Tune up your knowledge base. Sharpen your vision. Streamline all phases and facets of operation. And get ready for 25% growth over the next 5 years.

-Reach "faster, better, cheaper" goals with streamlined MRO strategies

-Get an incisive, brilliant probe of this fast-changing, fast-growing industry sector

-Discover insights, pointers, and stratagems for managers, executives, designers, developers, technical staff, equipment manufacturers, and anyone who needs a clear-eyed, farsighted overview of MRO

-Work within rule, regulatory, paperwork, and industry interdependency constraints

-Locate facts and figures quickly with tables, charts, forms, graphs, and the most complete collection of MRO data ever assembled

-Develop leadership and expertise with the first handbook in the field

-Written by the Lifetime Achievement award-winning chief mechanic and developer of the Boeing 777's computerized maintenance system

Airworthiness, efficiently and legally. That's what MRO is all about. Industry shorthand for maintenance, repair, and overhaul, MRO spells air carrier profitability and safety. And Jack Hessburg's Air Carrier MRO is the key to stellar-level MRO leadership and training.

About the Author:

Jack Hessburg was chief mechanic on Boeing's 777, and the creator of the 777's computerized maintenance design, the crowning achievement of his 25-year career with Boeing. He was recently awarded Overhaul & Maintenance magazine's Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to air carrier MRO and to the 777's system. He lives in Issaquah, Washington.

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