Sentences with phrase «wing spar»

Assembled C - 17 aircraft components and sub-assemblies including C - 17 wing spar and panel assemblies» structural components using blueprints and other engineering documents to accurately build a quality product, on time and under cost.

In a final round of tests, the team had hung an elaborate wooden framework and up to 6 tons of lead weights off the spine of the wing — known as the wing spar — to simulate the stress of the forces the plane could experience during heavy turbulence.

To construct the wing spar and some other parts, Décision's builders layered sheets of carbon fiber around a honeycomb of cardboard, giving the pieces both strength and flexibility.

In the Dübendorf workshop on a chilly morning in February 2013, workers prepped the fuselage for load testing — the same kind of testing that destroyed the wing spar the summer before.

Even as they worked to resolve the problem with the wing spar, the team had plenty else to do — a ton of details large and small, all of them crucial to the project's success.

The plane's three - piece wing spar and some other components were made from carbon fiber tapes that each weigh less than a tenth of an ounce per square foot — one - third the weight of a sheet of paper.

Rated for California seismic loads, so super strong, but bored in the middle, like an aircraft wing spar, so not heavy.

Not exact matches

Though Hoffman had considered Thiel «extremely right wing» at Stanford and had then counted himself a socialist, the two had become fast friends, each placing great value on their intellectual sparring over philosophy, morality, and politics.