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| An F-35 Lightning II under-construction (File Photo) |
BANKSTOWN, Australia, May 13 (UPI) -- Northrop Grumman praised its Australian supplier of advanced composite parts for Northrop's center fuselage for F-35 Lightning II joint strike fighters.
Less than a year after opening a new facility for production of the composite components, Quickstep Technologies Pty. Ltd. has completed the first bismaleimide and graphite epoxy production parts, "demonstrating that its facility is equipped and qualified to execute all of the required processes for its work on the F-35 program," it said.
Northrop Grumman's F-35 chief engineer also fully approved Quickstep Technologies' bismaleimide and graphite epoxy destruct test articles.
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