Aerospace

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A look inside an aerospace parts supplier that specializes in military parts.

Versatile machine tools and creative strategies help shops handle high-variety, low-volume aerospace machining.

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of flight, a company has replicated the Wright brothers' 1903 airplane engine--and their machning techniques.

Seven-axis machining allows one propeller manufacturer to eliminate variability and trim production time.

Initiative aims to help smaller aerospace manufacturers.

There's something new under the sun for aerospace composites.

Inside a world-class aerospace manufacturing facility.

Due to the exceptional strength of IN 100, INCO 718 and other nickel-based alloys, they're difficult to machine. The author, who spent 40 years endmilling these aerospace materials, discusses their unique characteristics and methods for successfully machining them.

Managers at California's Dowty Aerospace take full advantage of computers to design parts, program machines and track jobs from beginning to end. This shop profile talks about how Dowty has combined this computer-based organization with cell-based manufacturing to maintain efficiencies and keep lines of communications clear.