AddisonMckee provides a comprehensive suite of products, solutions, and services to enable the production of tubular components for:

• Commercial jets
• Military jets
• Helicopters
• Satellites and missiles
• Jet engines

Components include:

• Fuel nozzles
• Air conditioning lines
• Ducting and bellows assemblies
• Exhaust systems
• Seat frames
• Hydraulic lines
• Fuel lines
• And many others …

Materials:

• Titanium
• Inconel
• Stainless steel
• Aluminum 6061 T6

The Aircraft and Aerospace Industry and
AddisonMckee

The challenge today in the aircraft component market is trying to bend thin wall exotic metals on short production run, with very tight radius and quick changeover.

The solution? AddisonMckee's all-electric CNC benders with "Synchro-Boost" technology.

With considerable experience in push bend full boost technology, AddisonMckee's expertise enables precise control of the tube, as well as of the amount of tubular material placed into any given bend. The exotic metals are then able to be successfully manipulated into configurations that were previously considered impossible, i.e. 0.8D.

Indeed, the steps below demonstrate how simple and effective the bending process may be using AddisonMckee’s advanced technologies:

• Set up the machine and balance the variables to suit the materials to be used and based on the characteristics of the job
• If upon inspection of the bent component, wall thinning has occurred, the SynchroBend system allows the flexibility for extra material to be pushed in – millimeter by millimeter – during the bending process in order to achieve the desired results.
• After the machine has been set up once, and then stored in the memory, the machine remembers exactly where all the settings were the last time the job was run – therefore reducing long tedious setups.

AddisonMckee provides an impressive suite of solutions for the aerospace industry beyond bending machines – all using the latest technologies, but built on proven durable designs.