Northrop Grumman Corp. (El Segun-do, Calif.) on Oct. 6 announced that it had awarded a second-source supplier contract to Turkish Aerospace Industries Inc. (TAI, Ankara, Turkey) to produce composite air inlet ducts for the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter. The ducts are a key element of the aircraft's center fuselage, which Northrop Grumman produces, for F-35 prime contractor Lockheed Martin (see HPCs report on F-35 fuselage and wing skin production and assembly technologies, in this issue, p. 30).
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