Airbus A380 wings - CNC

[andy_ck87028]

Hi Guys

Impressive eh ?

Andy

[avsfan733]

definitely impressive...If I remmeber correctly (saw the pics somewhere else) they have two of those machines and they are used for the wing skins not the spars or larger sections but still cool

[CNCRob]

That is pretty cool.

[--colin--]

An impressive CNC machine for sure, but the application is the oldest use of CNC.

A long time ago, a US goverment contract was issued to create the technology needed to automatically cut wing skins for aircraft. The result of that contract was the "G-code" lanuage as we know it today and the numerically controlled machine tool. Back then it was just NC, since the computer didn't come until later.

--Colin--

[avsfan733]

thats really neat colin do you have any more info about this?

[jderou]

We've got a similar machine on order, with a similar application. this one will be 50' long. Arrives in December, will be interesting to see.

[tobyaxis]

Originally Posted by andy_ck87028 Hi Guys Impressive eh ? Andy

I used to work for a shop that made the engine brackets from Titanium Forgings. They had a Toyoda CAT50 4 axis Horizontal and a Kia CAT50 VMC making them. Wish I had pictures to share because it was amazing how they did it. They use Catia to write the programms and the programmers there are some of the best in New York. Nice guys too.
http://www.bill-jay.com/facilities.asp here is the link.

[Geof]

There is a smaller version located a bit south of Vancouver, B.C. that makes Boeing 737 wing spars. I took a group of industrial design students on a tour of it once and blew their minds away. They could not comprehend taking a block of aluminum weighing several thousand lbs and reducing it to a part weighing a few hundred. I also thought that a machine where you had to walk on the finished part to unclamp it seemed a bit crude. I think a second gantry is needed with a person carrier on it.

[srstol]

http://www.scaled.com/services/cms_mill.html

http://www.majortool.com/

Not exactly sherline...

[avsfan733]

theres another one of the machiens like scaled has on the west coast up in washington
http://www.janicki.com/services/CNCmachining.htm
i think theirs looks beefier...not sure how accurate the scaled one could be that doesn't look that stiff in all honesty (hooray for engineering via picture)

[diarmaid]

I can't see anything in the attachment in first post...its just plain white, can someone post a link to the A380 pics?

[tobyaxis]

Diarmaid,

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