Manufacturing Industry
Airbus begins U.K. production of its first A400M wing component.(GLOBAL ECONOMY)
Advanced Materials & Processes, April, 2006
The A400M military airlifter has taken another leap forward as wing manufacturing has begun at the Airbus site in Filton, Bristol, with machining of the first wing rib for the first production aircraft. The three meter long aluminum alloy billet will become 'wing rib ten' following two further machining sessions and a number of other processes carried out over the coming weeks.
The Airbus Filton site, which leads the wing design for A400M, is manufacturing 20 of the 48 ribs in a set of A400M wings (the other 28 being supplied by Mecachrome of France). The machining at Filton is carried out in a dedicated rib cell on high-speed five-axis machines supplied by Makino of Japan. Other than the ribs, the A400M wings are essentially made of composite materials...
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