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Lockheed Martin Introduces Cincinnati AutoDrill To F-35 Production Facility

Pat Host

Friday, November 13th, 2015

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Lockheed Martin Introduces Cincinnati AutoDrill To F-35 Production Facility

FORT WORTH, Texas--Lockheed Martin [LMT] in December will begin operating at its F-35 production plant here a Cincinnati AutoDrill that performs overlap machining to install the left-hand and right-hand side wing box to the aircraft’s wing center barrel.Lockheed Martin F-35 Business Development Manager Kevin McCormick told Defense Daily Friday via a spokesman that the Cincinnati AutoDrill is drilling the upper wing skin holes common to the center wing after attachment of the wing boxes to the center wing. It is…

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