Specially designed heavy equipment is used in production of Convair 880 and 600 airliners at San Diego, Calif, plant of General Dynamics Corp; there are four riveting machines, built by Nuclear Products Erco Div of A.C.F. Industries, three of which are used on wing-skin panels, and fourth on fuselage panels; spar miller built by Onsrud Machine Works Inc has bed 105 ft in length and is of traveling head type, with speed of 300 in./min; radial draw-former machine, made by Cyril Bath Co., is capable of forming circular bulkhead sections up to 12 ft in diam.
Convair production
Aircraft Production
Aircraft Production ; 22 , n 5
1960
5 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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Convair production in San Diego
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