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A preemptive spark lasting for nanoseconds that helps find potentially dangerous short circuits hidden in the miles of wiring behind the panels of aging commercial airliners has been patented by Sandia National Laboratories.

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In an effort to provide safer and more reliable components for aircraft, researchers have invented an optical on-off switch that can replace electrical wiring on airplanes with fiber optics for controlling elevators, rudders and other flight-critical elements. The research is described by Zhaoxia Xie and Henry F. Taylor of Texas A&M University in the current issue of Optics Letters, a journal of the Optical Society of America.

June 19, 2006 -- Enginenacelle: Notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) -- Airbus A300 airplanes, equipped with General Electric CF6-50 series engines. June 8, 2006 ...