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Volume 60, Issue 10
1 October 1988
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Aircraft Engineering
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Review Article| October 01 1988

CNC Tube Bender Boost Productivity at Flight Refuelling

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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2059-9366
Print ISSN: 0002-2667
© MCB UP Limited
1988
Aircraft Engineering (1988) 60 (10): 24–25.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb036698

ALTHOUGH dramatic productivity gains have been made at Flight Refuelling following the installation of a Magnum CNC tube bender, the main reason given for moving to CNC was the accuracy and repeatability that is inherent in the process.

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