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Article: Hawker Horizon Program Rapidly Expanding at Raytheon.(Statistical Data Included)
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- Advanced Materials & Composites News
- Article date:
- November 15, 1999
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Raytheon Aircraft Company has completed the wing joining for the first Hawker Horizon, and development of the new super mid-size business jet continues to expand.
The aluminum wing arrived earlier this year in two pieces from Fuji Heavy Industries, a risk-sharing supplier for the Horizon program. With the left and right wing sections now joined, approximately one-third of the first Hawker Horizon is complete. The next step will be to assemble the main landing gear to the 61 foot-9-inch wing.
Other achievements for the program include:
Fiber placement is complete on the 3 composite fuselage sections of the first aircraft, and the sections are ...