Hawker de Havilland has delivered the first wing fence for the A380 to Airbus. The 2.4m (7.8ft) high, arrow-shaped wingtip fence is being manufactured by the Australian Boeing subsidiary at its Bankstown, Sydney, facility. For the first delivery, the horizontal wingtip and vertical fence were connected in Australia as part of a quality assurance testing process, but subsequent examples will be shipped separately - the wingtips to Broughton in the UK for attachment to the wing, and the wing fences to Toulouse for attachment on the final assembly line.
Source: Flight International
