Final A350 Wing Tools Shipped To Spain And Germany

Credit: Guy Norris/AW&ST
Airbus is gearing up to build the A350 wing, the company’s first commercial composite wing structure, with the dispatch of large precision tools from California-based Coast Composites. The final set of tooling—a 108-ft.-long Invar mold for the right lower wing skin—is en route to the Airbus facility...

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