Will Shot Peening Stay Aloft?

摘要

Composite materials have been used in aircraft interiors for years and now they are making their way into aerospace structural components. To keep tabs on composites, we kept in touch with Derick Baisa while he was the Director of Marketing for C&D Zodiac Inc. /Northwest Composites. The overhead luggage bins in planes with which you have a love/ hate relationship? C&D Zodiac has been producing them, and many other composite components, since 1987. Mr. Baisa recently left C&D Zodiac to be the Business Development Manager at AMT, a precision machining and assembly aerospace facility in Arlington, Washington.AMT manufactures structural parts for the world's leading original equipment manufacturers and tier one suppliers such as Boeing, Airbus, Bombardier, Gulfstream, Hawker Beechcraft, Cessna, Sikorsky, Spirit AeroSystems, Triumph and Goodrich. AMT's experience and capabilities span multiple segments of an aircraft, including the engine pylon, struts, wing box, wings, vertical stabilizer, horizontal stabilizer, floor beams, wheel well and interior components. AMT has 3,4 and 5-axis high-speed machining capabilities up to 33,000 RPMs and hard metal machining capabilities.