Media Newsletter

Our newsletter covers the latest on HYDRO, our products, and our solutions.

Newsletter Issue #8

April 2019 – June 2019 (Quarter 2.2019)

Winglets copy the upward curl of feathers to help planes fly efficiently and also to keep the length of the wings within limits set by airports. But what is the difference between winglets and wingtips? How much reduction in fuel burn do they deliver? Is this something that only new aircraft have? And what are sharklets?

Ulrich Ludwigshausen is 53 years old and Head of Purchasing at HYDRO. He holds a degree in Industrial Engineering. After several steps at 3M, the Safran group and Collins Aerospace he joined HYDRO in 2018. Ulrich Ludwigshausen is married, lives with his wife in Freiburg in Germany, and has two children.

It’s no secret that having to have multiple, extensive storage areas at airports with an extremely wide variety of tow-bars is both costly and time-consuming. The new tow-bar model is designed to fix that by covering all wide-body aircraft with a completely new approach that works with a range of models going from the A330-200 all the way to the B787-10. And while previous tow-bar models that covered multiple aircraft needed to have their shear pins changed every time, the new model simply needs the position of the locking mechanism at the tow head to be changed.

 

A new feature of the MLGTMULTI makes landing gear changes even more efficient. Until now, different OEM tools had to be used to change the main landing gear and the nose landing gear on an A320. This translated into higher investment costs, more warehouse space and greater training expense for handling the various tools. Both landing gear changes can now be handled with only one device, the newest generation of the MLGTMULTI.