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Have you ever wanted to know what it takes to fully assembly a stealth fighter?
In case you have, I've got the file for you. The image above is a snapshot from a manufacturing sequence flow chart sent to me yesterday by Lockheed Martin, after it was approved for release by the US government.
A greatly miniaturized version of it will appear in next week's issue of Flight International, as part a feature article on the increasingly urgent ramp-up of the F-35 production system.
Keep in mind when you look at this chart that Lockheed's manufacturing team currently plans to complete -- and repeat -- this entire process at least once every month. By 2017, the process may have to repeated every day to keep up with manufacturing demand.
Click on the link below to see the chart.
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Have you ever wanted to know what it takes to fully assembly a stealth fighter?
In case you have, I've got the file for you. The image above is a snapshot from a manufacturing sequence flow chart sent to me yesterday by Lockheed Martin, after it was approved for release by the US government.
A greatly miniaturized version of it will appear in next week's issue of Flight International, as part a feature article on the increasingly urgent ramp-up of the F-35 production system.
Keep in mind when you look at this chart that Lockheed's manufacturing team currently plans to complete -- and repeat -- this entire process at least once every month. By 2017, the process may have to repeated every day to keep up with manufacturing demand.
Click on the link below to see the chart.
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