Giants of the 'monolithic' age: productivity for airbus wing spars will quadruple with huge Ingersoll machine.
Tooling & Production › Vol. 63 Nbr. 12, March 1998
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Rockford, IL-based The Ingersoll Milling Machine Co has introduced the High Velocity Profiler aimed at quadrupling British Aerospace's (BAe) productivity for Airbus wing spars. The machine's horizontal spindles can carve out 1600 cu in of aluminum/min when running at full power and can also produce 16 wing spars at a time. The High Velocity Profiler is equipped with sufficient strength and agility to carve 3/8-in thin walls of each wing spar.See the full content of this document
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Giants of the 'monolithic' age: productivity for airbus wing spars will quadruple with huge Ingersoll machine.
European aerospace consortium Airbus Industrie is riding the crest of a 1000-aircraft backlog - and there's no end in sight as the airlines' near-insatiable demand for passenger liners continues unabated.
At British Aerospace (BAe), the Airbus partner with responsibility for producing all of the wings for these many aircraft, executives are surprisingly optimistic about their company's ability to meet this demand - despite daunting cost, quality and delivery pressures. They acknowledge, however, that conv...See the full content of this document
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