April 2021
Departments:
- From the Flight Deck: Automation’s last frontier
- Checking In: First Mitsui Seiki Blue Arc machine installed at Aerodyn Engineering
- Mike’s tooling insights: Are you using your quick-change tooling as designed?
- Gaining Altitude: COVID-19 and its impacts on manufacturing
- Just Landed: 5-axis hybrid vertical machining center
- Up and Soaring: LiquidPiston wins US Air Force contract
- Cover Shots: Plating measurement system
- 3D/Additive Manufacturing: Additive machining center
- Maintenance, Repair, & Overhaul: S3 AeroDefense wins Army repair contract
- Aviation Appreciation: Name that plane
- On the Radar: Fully sealed pull-down chucks
- 1 Last Look: Tiny, agile drones
Features:
- Design & Automation: Designing electronics for aerospace technology
- Testing: 5 steps to integrate technology
- forming: Pressing home the advantage
- Additive: Transforming MRO with 3D printing
- Cover Story: Flexible hones for cross-hole deburring
- Cutting tools: Buying the center of the doughnut