A quick update on some of the other areas we are working on for the Typhoon. Our focus over the past few months has been design work on the fixtures for the forward monocoque, radiator fairing, and cockpit structure of the Typhoon, work on the rear monocoque has also just started.
We have recently complete design work on the radiator fairing fixture, and the forward monocoque fixture is close behind. One of the most complex structures in the Typhoon is the cockpit section; and given that we have incomplete data, the process of digitally designing the fixture is dependent on accurately reverse engineering many fittings from surviving structure. We've updated our Facebook page and website with a few pictures of the work JP843 team member Nicolas Walter has been doing, these show some (ongoing) component design, along with some early design work on the fixture.
The individual component shown are items which have very recently been completed by our project sponsor, and will be added to Nicolas’s work to help with the fixture design. These items were reverse engineered using both 3D scanning equipment and a FARO arm CMM which were adjusted to account for the thermal expansion properties of the material being measured. Once the scan and CMM work were done, the data was combined with known data and tolerances before being built into a solid model ready for production. The techniques used for this process will ensure an absolutely accurate reproduction of the original design.
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