Giddings and Lewis milling machine, installed at Lockheed Aircraft Corp, measures 80 ft long, 30 ft wide and 18 ft high; designed for complete milling of self reinforced aircraft skins from solid or rough forged aluminum alloy slabs in one setting; turns out one-piece wing sections as large as 10× 33 ft. (See also Western Machinery and Steel World v 43 n 4 Apr 1952 p 94-6)
Huge skin mill revolutionizes aircraft manufactures
Aircraft Production
Aircraft Production ; 14 , n 163
1952
6 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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