The major German manufactures are cooperating with government help to investigate means of producing gliders more economically. They are concerned about South Africa’s lower labour costs. As Jonkers have produced 100 high performance gliders that otherwise might have been produced in Germany, pretty understandable. The German manufacturers have until now steadfastly refused to incorporate ideas proven successful by other manufacturers. Just think about Hotelier fittings and self connecting devices to connect wing functions to the fuselage. Harry Medlicott
From: Mike Borgelt Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2016 7:23 PM To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] JS3/production techniques It all comes down to money. Gliding isn't large enough to support the large capital expenditures to automate the manufacturing processes and I'm not sure making gliders a fair bit cheaper would actually increase sales by all that much as the sport appeals to a limited number of people, including a limited number of people who are already pilots. Mike At 12:58 PM 12/14/2016, you wrote: >>I do believe though that for the wings at least most have gone to CNC aluminium moulds. The German ones I saw were resin and about 7 years ago. However, two years in Dubai, I saw keels being machined out of solid steel billets inside machines which were large enough to fit a truck and other even larger CNC machines being used to machine one piece moulds for one-off 60' boats. There were also autoclaves as large as factories for cooking the parts. D _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring Borgelt Instruments - design & manufacture of quality soaring instrumentation since 1978 www.borgeltinstruments.com tel: 07 4635 5784 overseas: int+61-7-4635 5784 mob: 042835 5784 : int+61-42835 5784 P O Box 4607, Toowoomba East, QLD 4350, Australia -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring
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