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Volume 58, Issue 6
1 June 1986
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Aircraft Engineering
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Review Article| June 01 1986

Desitech CNC Ultrasonic Profiling Machine is the First Module in Westland Helicopters' New, Super‐Efficient Spar Production Cell Available to Purchase

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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2059-9366
Print ISSN: 0002-2667
© MCB UP Limited
1986
Aircraft Engineering (1986) 58 (6): 26–27.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb036304

WESTLAND Helicopters Ltd, of Yeovil, Somerset, England, has led the world in the manufacture of high‐technology helicopter rotor blades using composite materials such as glass and carbon fibre lamimates in place of conventional metal construction.

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