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Volume 65, Issue 7
1 July 1993
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Aircraft Engineering
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Review Article| July 01 1993

Condition Monitoring of Spindle Machines Performance is Proving Cost Effective at British Aerospace

Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2059-9366
Print ISSN: 0002-2667
© MCB UP Limited
1993
Aircraft Engineering (1993) 65 (7): 4–5.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb037391

A significant amount of metal removal is undertaken at British Aerospace's Preston plant during the machining of mainly aluminium wing skins, bulk heads and leading edge sections for Tornados, Jaguars and other aircraft.

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