The Aircraft Coatings Removal Issue

Author:  E.S. Vigne, ES&K Associates
Source:  The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 05/Issue 2, Summer 1991
Doc ID:  1991111
Year of Publication:  1991
Abstract:  
A Strategic Overview INTRODUCTION Throughout the decade of the 1980's and into the early 1990's, the "Aircraft Coating Removal Industry" has been evaluating many alternatives to the toxic liquid chemical strippers which have been used to remove coatings from aircraft exteriors for maintenance inspection. Worker safety and environmental concerns are the driving forces behind the search for alternative stripping methods. Everyone in the "Industry" acknowledges the need to protect the worker and the environment. However, until these alternative processes are proven to be non-damaging to the aircraft to the satisfaction of the "regulators/approvers" of aircraft maintenance procedures, toxic chemical strippers will continue to be used.