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[flying_trader]

Too bad GKN didn't choose Rib Feet...

As I recall, and correct me if I am wrong, but GKN choose or was told by Airbus to produce a bracket for the landing gear as the first part to be commercially produced... there are 2 required per plane...

Too bad they didn't start with Rib Feet that require thousands per plane... I expect there is a reason for this... maybe existing methods are just fine, maybe TiAl is too expensive... I don't know but surely they were aware of these and any other potential parts and after considering which would be best suited both technically and commercially chose the brackets they chose...

In this article, which has been posted here before, they describe the "fail safe bracket" they will be producing and it indicates they need to produce 84 per month for the 42 airplanes produced each month... so I assume 3 per plane... could be they just didn't want to invest in the capacity for something like Rib Feet off the bat... so perhaps one day...

http://www.machinery.co.uk/machinery-features/airbus-and-gkn-aerospace-have-both-together-and-separately-developed-metal-additive-manufacturing-processes-to-an-advanced-stage-their-sights-are-now-set-on-flight-qualifying-a-part-as-will-dalrymple-reports/110930/