Highlights of the presentation made last month at Spain-based Airbus final assembly lines provide insights into the basic configuration of the aircraft, a customer update, and some interesting comments on the engineering and industrial solutions for working with partners.
During the System Development and Demonstration (SDD) phase, wings have been built in the more traditional military aircraft assembly approach of building around stations. The parts and components come to the station and the wing is assembled over a period of months at the station.
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