Titanium flamecutting reduces airframe costs

Abstract

ALTHOUGH OXY‐GAS FLAMECUTTING has been in use by steel fabricators, mainly in the shipbuilding and chemical engineering industries, for some 50 years, the adoption of this technique by aircraft makers is quite recent but is now rapidly establishing itself as a major production method. On the one hand this is due to significant advances in flamecutting, while on the other hand rapidly rising production costs have focused the attention of airframe designers on what is inherently a low‐cost production process. Both these aspects are highlighted by 2 recent examples of the use of flamecutters, entirely different in application yet with the common factor of achieving astonishing reductions in production costs.

Citation

GALLAGHER, H.M. (1973), "Titanium flamecutting reduces airframe costs", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 45 No. 12, pp. 20-21. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb035106