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At bottom is a thrust reverser cascade fabricated using one of many different manufacturing methods explored by the R&D organization. Fabrication of the cascades can be costly making them a good target for implementing new manufacturing technologies. This example is fabricated using resin transfer molding. At right bottom is a long duct, mixed flow nacelle fabricated to demonstrate several noise and performance enhancement features.
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Over recent years, Aerostructures has fabricated one-off and limited production hardware to support internal research or customer funded prototype programs. Examples are shown on this page. To the left is a core cowl fabricated from a high temperature composite polymer material, which was tested for 5100 flight hours on a commercial airliner. Below left is a mixer nozzle fabricated using a new 360ƒ forming method. Below is a laminar flow test nacelle, which was fabricated by Goodrich and test flown with GE and NASA. Goodrich also built hardware for both un-ducted fan flight demonstrator aircraft as shown below.
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