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Wing of Tomorrow ribs: One-shot, thermoplastic, OOA consolidation


Cost-competitive thermoplastic rib. As part of the Wing of Tomorrow program, GKN Aerospace’s U.K. and Netherlands locations teamed up to design a thermoplastic composite rib using out-of-autoclave (OOA) manufacturing processes that are cost-competitive and mechanically equivalent to a traditional aluminum rib. Photo credit, all images: GKN Aerospace
Airbus’ Wing of Tomorrow (WOT) program, launched in 2015, has spent the past six years exploring more cost-competitive, higher-throughput material, manufacturing and assembly technologies for single-aisle commercial aircraft wings (see
CW’s previous coverage of the WOT program: compositesworld.com/hashtag/wingoftomorrow).
According to Arnt Offringa, director of the GKN Aerospace Global Technology Center Netherlands (Hoogeveen), ....

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