21 Jan IAI Inaugurates New Line for F-35 Wing Skins

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IAI Inaugurates New Line for F-35 Wing Skins 2

 

December 24, 2018–  Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has inaugurated a new line for the production of stealth-enabling wing skins for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.

Deliveries of an initial order of 700 are expected to begin in 2019.The production system involves a technology described as Automatic Fibre Placement that puts down layers of 3mm threads to form a skin.  The coating kits will be delivered over the coming 20 years, and will generate hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue.

IAI approved the new production line in 2015 following a commitment from F-35 prime contractor Lockheed Martin to expand the development of the wing skins, appointing the Israeli company as the subcontractor.

 

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In the photo: Shlomi Karako, IAI EVP and general manager of the Commercial Aircraft Group, Nimrod Sheffer, IAI CEO, and Joshua Shani, CEO of Lockheed Martin Israel.
(Credit: IAI)



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