ASTM International’s additive manufacturing technologies committee (F42) is developing four standards that aim to help aircraft parts manufacturers meet safety and performance requirements.
If you ever get a chance to watch an aircraft being built, take it. Walking through the aircraft hangar at Northrop Grumman’s Palmdale, CA, facility, you will see two unmanned aircraft, each with a 130-foot wingspan, parked behind yellow tape. The scale of the aircraft and the desert setting make it feel like a movie set.
As the aerospace industry in Canada and around the world continues to increase its use of automat-ed composite manufacturing techniques to produce large aircraft components, the industry is eager to find solutions to manufacture reliable, safe, and cost effective composite structures.
Northrop Grumman Corporation celebrated the outstanding contributions and achievements made by women from across the defense sector at a ceremony held at the Imperial War Muse-um in London.