Self-centering steady-rests holds jet engine parts to close tolerances.

From: Modern Machine Shop | Date: March 1, 1991 | Copyright information

Self-Centering Steady-Rests Holds Jet Engine Parts To Close Tolerances

D & D Gear of Santa Fe Springs, California specializes in producing extremely accurate shafts and parts that incorporate precision threads, gear teeth and splines, each requiring tight, precise specifications. During a three-year period of capital investment, the company went through several periods of experimental and developmental time to allow the development and production of jet engine thrust reversing actuators.

The actuator workpieces are used on several types of aircraft to open the engine's ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

Make your own jet engine at home
; ...that it works on the same principle as a jet engine, and that in fact the impellers are perfect for a jet engine. Here is a selection of websites featuring...home.xml If you ever wanted to build a jet engine at home then go find yourself an old...
Jet Engine Uniquely Successful in Fighting Mine Fire; DOE Assistance Moves Coal Miners Back to Work One Year Early
; ...Newswire/ -- A modified jet engine has been used to successfully...of the mineshafts, the jet engine was used to blow water...envisioned that we'd be using a jet engine to put out a mine fire...fire through use of the jet engine, miners were able to reenter...techniques ...
1903-2003 CENTURY OF FLIGHT GREAT MOMENTS IN AVIATION; JET ENGINE TAKES OFF ... DESPITE NAYSAYERS
; ...else fled each time his experimental jet engine ran out of control in 1937. (Frank Whittle, "The Birth of the Jet Engine in Britain," Celebration of the Golden...application for the world's first jet engine. Britain's air ministry was skeptical...
Jet engine pioneer and Sinclair's C5 helped make Britain great.(News)
; ...Frank Whittle, pictured, inventor of the jet engine, as his inventing hero. 'He is definitely...He was so young when he invented the jet engine.' An outstanding pilot, in 1928 Whittle...He was granted a patent for his first jet engine in 1932. But the design was ignored until...
WA: Ferrari was roaring like a jet engine before crash
; ...11-07-1999 WA: Ferrari was roaring like a jet engine before crash PERTH, Nov 7 AAP - A Ferrari...fatal crash yesterday was roaring like a jet engine before the crash a witness said today...when she heard what she thought was a jet engine roar past the college. Mrs Doss said...
Unsung hero who gave us the world Film and TV producer Nicholas Jones tells us why he believes that the inventor of the jet engine Sir Frank Whittle's contribution to our lives is today hugely underestimated
; ...he believes that the inventor of the jet engine Sir Frank Whittle's contribution to our...Whittle (1907-1996), the inventor of the jet engine - and the "father of mass air travel...cent actually knew Britain invented the jet engine. Such information is clearly no longer...
Company using jet engine to speed mine reopening
; ...Resources LLC is using a specially designed jet engine to speed up the reopening of a Wyoming...malfunctioning ventilation controls. The jet engine, similar to one that Consol used to quell...officer of PinnOak Resources, said the jet engine "can help us reopen the mine and re...
Why first jet engine backfired; Pioneers tell of trials of revolutionary work.
; ...helped build and test the world's first jet engine in the Midlands have revealed few people...events surrounding the evolution of the jet engine when some of them were reunited for the...seen photographs of the inventor and the jet engine. The veteran workers, aged between 79...
JET ENGINE SUCKS IN WORKER; Rescuers find only his boots.(News)
; ...AIRCRAFT engineer has been killed by being sucked into a jet engine. Horrified workmates could only find the maintenance worker...revealed. CAPTION(S): HORROR: The engineer was sucked into the jet engine of the Air Astana plane; DEADLY: Jet engine
GE Jet Engine Plant in Wilmington, N.C., Awaits Word on Corporate Layoffs.
; ...Salaried employees at the General Electric jet engine plant on Castle Hayne Road are awaiting...eliminate 800 positions throughout the jet engine division's worldwide operations. Rick...Currently there are 770 employees in the jet engine facility here, 120 of whom are salaried...