Air King 747

High-Performance
Airline Tire
Amina Hussaini
Chris McClure
Laura Dart
Purushottam Jha
Harold Allen

Capabilities
Increased tread
depth
Wide Aqua
channels
Higher resistance
to cracks
Higher
performance at
suboptimal
pressure

Executive Summary

747 Major Market Shares

British Airways
Lufthansa
United Airlines
KLM

Planning 10 days
R&D 52 days
Testing 232 days
Project Budget

Challenges
Tire temperatures
Tires under load
Degradation of liner
material
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Team Structure
Project
Sponsor
(Shawn Alborz)
Amina Hussaini
(Project
Manager)
Chris
McClure
(Research
&
Developme
nt)

Harold Allen
(Procuremen
t Manager)

Laura Dart
(Team
Leader)
Purushottam
Jha (Test
Engineer)
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Project Budget
Actual Budget: 444,800
Design: $138,000
Prototype: $156,000
Testing (Lab & Field): $147,000
Closeout: $3,800

1% 1%
32% 30%
35%

Budget Surplus: $5,200

Projected Budget: 450,000

Design: $130,000
1% 4%
31%
29%
36%

Prototype: $160,000
Testing (Lab & Field): $140,000
Closeout: $3,250
Contingency Reserve: $16,750
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Project Timeline
April
2013

May
2013

June
2013

July
2013

August
2013

Sept
ember
2013

Octob
er
2013

Novemb
er 2013

August
2014

Project Activities

Plan and Define

Procure and Purchase

Technical Lessons
Learned

Research and Development

Testing
Final
Inspecti
on

Planning

A Work Breakdown structure was created via the planning process to ensure the team identified the critical areas.
This was used to develop the detailed plan.

Challenges & Solutions

Tire temperatures
Check daily when tires are cool
Inflate to worst conditions
A temp change a 5 degrees produces
approximately a 1% pressure change

Tires under load

Increase pressure 4%
Equal pressure for all tires

Degradation of the liner material

Use dry nitrogen gas
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Major Market Buyers

Primary Users of 747 Jumbo Jet
British Airways
Lufthansa
United Airlines
KLM
British Airways
Lufthansa
United Airlines
KLM

Product (Features and

Capabilities)

Tread Depth
(32nds of an Inch)

14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0

Feet Traveled Before Hydroplaning

At Increasing Water Depth
250
200
Before
Testing
After 100
Landings

150
100
50

Air King
Leading
Competitor

ddition, the Air King demonstrated a 30% higher resistance to cracks an

ures due to weather and 25% higher performance at sub-optimal pressur
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Comparison
Goodyear Flight
Leader
Speed Rating of
235mph
Ply of 32

Air King 747

Comparison
Speed
Ply
235

Rating of
Speed Rating 245mph
245
Ply
of 36

32
36

Flight Leader
Air King

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Final Prototype

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Questions?

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