Sunaero’s quick fixes aim to plug fuel leaks
Sunaero is here at the Farnborough show (Hall 1 Stand A15) promoting its quick-repair equipment and services for repair of fuel leaks in military and civil

Sunaero is here at the Farnborough show (Hall 1 Stand A15) promoting its quick-repair equipment and services for repair of fuel leaks in military and civil aircraft. The trend in this area is toward smaller, more portable hardware, a spokesman said. The French company is also developing a new solution for composite material repair, he noted.

Although air forces generally don’t acknowledge it, fuel leaks rank second in aircraft-on-ground issues, just after engine failures, with some of them resulting from combat damage, said Sunaero’s vice president for quality and training Thierry Regond. Since the 1990s, when DGA, France’s defense procurement agency, commissioned the company to work on the problem, the firm has been offering a range of solutions for leak detection and repair, with a focus on achieving shorter turnaround times.

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