source: airbus
FEATURE / A400M WING ASSEMBLY
12,000 reasons to be careful
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Cleveland, OK 74020
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high-performance composites
about 95 percent of the holes drilled in each a400m wing are
generated by the automated electroimpact drilling system, but the
balance is hand-drilled. Drilling currently takes a little more than
eight days. skins are drilled in place, removed, deburred and then
attached with bolts that include a sealant to prevent fuel leakage.
ing equipment, transported via crane to the ���rst of two Stage
2 workstations, called Pre-Equip 1, and oriented ���at on a new
work ���xture that gives operators and installers easy access to
the wing���s leading and trailing edges.
At this stage, Airbus conducts a series of metrology checks
with laser trackers and photo-imagery to verify that the wing
meets a variety of critical dimensional speci���cations. Workers