Boeing Begins Final Assembly of 2nd P-8A Poseidon
By Frontier India | July 29th, 2008 | Category: Defence Products Manufacturing Companies | No Comments »
Photo Credit: Boeing photo by Jim Anderson
The start of final assembly follows Spirit AeroSystems’ delivery of the aircraft’s fuselage to Boeing. S1 is one of five P-8A test aircraft — three flight-test and two ground-test — that the Boeing-led team of CFM International, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Spirit AeroSystems and GE Aviation is building for the Navy as part of a System Development and Demonstration contract.
During full-scale static testing in Renton, external loads will be systematically applied to the airframe to validate that the P-8A can withstand the loads it will be subjected to during its service life. Boeing Commercial Airplanes will install about 4,000 sensors and other types of measurement instrumentation on the airframe for these tests.
