Aircraft Tire Technology

Course description
Time: 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Location: 240 South Forge Street, Akron, Ohio 44325
Classroom 217 (Located inside the National Polymer Innovation Center)
Cost: $800 USD
CEU's: 0.8
Instructor: Tom Dwenger

Course Overview

The Aircraft Tire Technology Course  is designed to give students a basic understanding of the Aircraft Tire Design Process for both bias and radial aircraft tires, the components of an aircraft tire and the compound characteristics needed for each component, Aircraft Tire Retreading, Aircraft Tire Testing and the Airworthiness Authority regulations and approval process, the proper Care & Maintenance requirements and Aircraft Tire Investigation analysis.

Instructor Biography:

Tom Dwenger spent his entire engineering career at Goodyear in all phases of bias and radial aircraft tire design and development and was a Chief Engineer in that area. In addition, he served as a representative to the Rubber Manufacturers Association Aircraft Tire Engineering Committee, the Aircraft Tire & Rim Standards Committee, several years as its chairman, the US American National Standards Institute representative to the International Standards Organization, and the first Chairman of the Society of Engineers A-5C Committee on Aircraft Tires. He spent 5 years in Luxembourg when Goodyear set up a tire design group in its European Technical Center and was the design engineering lead in setting up 2 aircraft tire retreading production plants. Following his retirement from Goodyear, he has continued to consult for ES3, Inc, a consulting company headquartered in San Diego with its engineering base in Utah.