Welcome - Brett Conrad (Avionics Manager)

We are very pleased to announce that Brett Conrad has recently joined our team on a full time basis in the newly created position of Avionics Manager.

Brett has a wealth of avionics and electrical systems experience on all types of aircraft ranging from private aircraft through to airliners and military aircraft.  With his unique combination of skills and qualifications including a trade qualification as a Licenced Aircraft Maintenance Engineer (LAME), CASR 21.M Certification Engineer (Avionics and Electrical Systems) and CASA Delegation for issuance of Certificates of Airworthiness, Brett provides us with the ability to offer our clients a, in-house "one stop shop" for all of your design and certification requirements.

Qantas Boeing 767 Cabin Refresh Program

Five Rings Aerospace, in partnership with Seats of Australia and Byron Aviation, recently provided Qantas Airways with design and certification services in support of the Qantas Boeing 767 cabin refresh program.

The program involved interior upgrades to the business and economy class cabins including seat cushions and upholstery, cabin trim panels, curtains and monuments.

The completed cabin looks fantastic and is a credit to the hard work of all involved.

Business Cabin

Cabin Bulkhead

Economy Cabin

Welcome - Richard Traill (Engineering Manager)

We welcome Richard Traill to the Five RIngs Aerospace team in the position of Engineering Manager. Richard is an Aeronautical and Materials engineer with over 15 years experience working on both civil and military aircraft.

Richard is a CASR 21.M certification engineer experienced in aviation structures, repair design, materials and processes, regulatory compliance and certification.

Richard joins us from Qantas Airways where he was most recently employed as Seattle Technical Representative overseeing all technical aspects associted with delivery of 737-800 aircraft with a combined value in excess of $1.4 billion

Engineering Support for Jetstar Airways

Five Rings Aerospace have recently agreed with the Jetstar Group to provide engineering design and certification support for its fleet of aircraft.

The Jetstar Group is the largest low cost airline in the Asia Pacific by revenue and has flown over 75 million passengers since it launched in 2004. The Jetstar Group has grown from 400 employees in 2004 to more than 7,000 staff across the Asia Pacific today.

We are very excited about this new relationship and look forward to developing a long term partnership with the Jetstar Group as it continues to grow in the Asia-Pacific region.

Welcome - Craig Mitchell (Airline Support Manager)

Five Rings Aerospace is very pleased to announce the appointment of Craig Mitchell to the newly created role of Airline Support Manager.  With over 30 years of aviation industry experience, Craig's depth of knowledge in the area of airline technical support is second to none and he is a very welcome additional to our team.

New Offices at Bankstown Airport

We are very excited to announce the recent opening of our newest office at Bankstown Airport in Sydney.  Headed up by the experienced team of John Stewart-Jones and Bronwyn Hicks, the office is already proving to be a great addition to our capability.

John and Bron have a wealth of knowledge in the aviation industry and look forward to assisting you with your engineering design and certification requirements

Aircraft Vibration Characterisation

Five Rings Aerospace was engaged by De Bruin Air to propose a BAE Jetstream 32 aircraft modification which would to allow for the mounting of an aerial digital mapping system.

The imaging system was to be mounted to inside an existing underbelly pod, allowing for digital imaging of extremely wide swaths of targeted ground areas.  To qualify their proposed mounting assembly, we had to first assess the J32 operating environment, provide the environmental data to the imaging system manufacturer, and let them report back as to whether the imaging equipment would function as intended in the pod environment.

Five Rings Aerospace carried out an extensive flight test program to establish the vibration spectrum of the pod under all anticipated operating conditions.   Individual flight segments were recorded, including: engine start and ground run, taxi, take-off and climb, cruise, steep turns, descent and landing, aircraft parking, and complete aircraft shutdown (engines off). 

In conjunction with specialists from Lansmont Corporation in California, the test data was then analysed, providing individual frequency-domain power spectral density (PSD) plots for each of the flight and ground test segments.  On the basis of this test data, the imaging system manufacturer verified that the system would operate effectively in the proposed environment and our customer was able to proceed with the purchase and installation of the system.

Solidworks Software Licensing Agreement

Five Rings Aerospace is pleased to announce that we have entered into a software licensing and training agreement with Solidtec Solutions Pty Ltd for the purchase of Solidworks 3D Computer Aided Design software.  This is an exciting commitment for our business and provides us with vastly improved design and modelling capability to better serve our client base.