Carbon-epoxy upper aft rudders have been successfully evaluated on the DC-10 during 10 years of airline flight service. They have flown for more than 320,000 flight hours, with 36,000 flight hours flown by a single rudder. The rudder box is of thin-skin buckled construction and is cocured out-of-autoclave as a one-piece assembly. Weight saving can exceed the rudder weight if full advantage is taken of removing balance weight from the forward rudder.


    Access

    Access via TIB

    Check availability in my library


    Export, share and cite



    Title :

    Ten years of flight service with DC-10 composite rudders - A backward glance


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    1986-01-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English







    Backward Glance

    Emerald Group Publishing | 1960


    PODDED RUDDERS

    Junglewitz, A. / el Moctar, O. / Franic, S. et al. | British Library Conference Proceedings | 2004