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COUNTERFEIT AND UNAPPROVED AIRCRAFT PARTS: STATUS

Posted By Roy Resto | August 04, 2017

If a tree falls in the forest and the wife does not hear it, is the husband still wrong? Of course he is, or will be! So, if reporting or notifications of certain events appear to be waning, does that infer those events are correspondingly declini...

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THE VALUE OF TEAR-DOWN REPORTS

Posted By Roy Resto | June 06, 2017

Some documents, as Rodney Dangerfield might say, ‘’’…get no respect.” That is of course, until the mud hits the fan. So it is with the supposedly lowly tear-down report. Day in and day out we routinely check for the presence of these documents, ch...

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AFTERMARKET TAGS: Overhauled vs Repaired vs 2 Years

Posted By Roy Resto | April 04, 2017

Time to stir the pot again

I continue to hear moans about the issues we’re about to discuss, so I dusted off and updated this classic prose which will address the purchasing of aftermarket spares (other than new condition). Many of you have shared...

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PACKAGING OF AIRCRAFT PARTS

Posted By Roy Resto | February 01, 2017

Would you like me to gift-wrap this for you? We wish that packaging of aircraft parts was as easy as adding a satin bow and ribbons to make it look pretty. The fact is that proper packing and preparation for shipment of aircraft parts requires a d...

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AIRCRAFT BIG DATA, ANALYTICS, AND THE AFTERMARKET

Posted By Roy Resto | December 01, 2016

When I hear popular culture terms, I tend to borrow the lingo so I don’t seem remote and out of touch. A term I’ve heard bandied-about is ‘TMI’, or Too Much Information. ‘TMI’ might be uttered by you following a conversation with an acquaintance w...

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Consignment Refinement

Posted By Roy Resto | October 04, 2016

As I outlined this blog, my first thought was to make this a straight forward presentation of the issues devoid of any colorful flairs of expression…but then it would not be a Royboy blog. So permit me to quickly and plainly articulate some of the...

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