A new page has been added under the Technical Menu heading titled “Design for Reliability“. It presents 28 points from a memo by David Wardale dated March 2005 in which he lists the factors that would have enabled the 5AT to offer much higher reliability than “first generation steam” (i.e. historic) designs.
As reported in the News section, AST Newsletter No 3 was distributed on 23rd December. It contains an article describing several changes that have been made to the website. These are summarized as follows: 1 – Members’ Log-in: Members can now log-in to the site to gain access to Members-only sections of the website. […]
Members should by now have received a copy of AST Newsletter No 3 which was distributed by email on 23rd December 2016, a copy of which will be uploaded to this website in due course. In the meantime, any member who has not received a copy is requested to notify and request a copy. […]
A link has just been created between AST’s website and its facebook page through which News postings should automatically appear on the facebook page. This feature has only just been installed and has not yet been rigorously tested, so bugs may be found in it.