Two Formula machines have been in service at Lockheed Martin Fort Worth for a turnkey solution milling the F-35 fighter jet center section fuselage. That project employed both the thermal management system mentioned above for the XS, in addition to an automated cell with temp control and air filtering.


“The XS machine is an overhead gantry machine that has the ability to encapsulate the entire machine without putting it into a controlled environment, including column sides, the bridge which is the cross rail, the ram and ram saddle with the exception of the guideways of the ram [the vertical axis],” said Tom Hagey, operations manager. “The ram protrudes down to the table of the machine with the head. Boxways that are hardened and ground and exposed in ambient tempera- tures are gundrilled out and refrigerated coolant is passed through,” said Hagey.


“Balanced tooling produces excellent surface finishes, extends tool life, and


prevents possible damage to the spindle.”


“AIP Aerospace Tooling Group has or- dered four of our machines, one for their Odyssey division in Michigan; the other three for their Coast Composites Irvine, CA facility. They’ll be used to produce the tools for building composite parts for the Boeing 787 and Airbus A350. One of the machines, a dual gantry model has travel of 59 × 15' [18 × 4.5 m],” said Hagey.


Tool Selection Leads to Predictability According to Ed Mulvey, technical support applications engineer, Horn USA (Franklin, TN), multitasking machining using tools like Horn’s spline milling and gear milling tools can complete a gear or


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a hub with a spline on it in one setup on the latest multitasking machines. “The real benefit for the user is that quality of the part is ensured as handling is minimized. Our tools are especially well suited to meeting the requirements of tough grooving that are


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