Flexible Shafts Help Control Afterburner Vane Actuation Systems on the F15 & F17 Military Jets

Oct. 8, 2012 - PRLog -- Piscataway, New Jersey --- S.S. White Technologies is the aerospace industry’s leading performance-driven producer of aerospace flexible rotary shafts for the vane actuation system on the afterburner control nozzles of the F15 and F16 air superiority military fighter aircraft.

A fighter aircraft afterburner is comprised of a set of fuel injectors, a tube, a flame holder that the fuel burns in, and an adjustable exhaust nozzle. Jet engines with an afterburner require an adjustable exhaust nozzle to control the thrust and internal engine pressures. . S.S. White flexible shafts provide positive, mechanically synchronized control of this critical actuator system controlling the afterburner exhaust nozzle.

In addition, all aerospace flexible shaft products are designed to one of the industry’s highest performance criteria by utilizing a unique computer modeling program developed by S. S. White called PERFLEXION. This program allows design engineers to fully model the behavioral characteristics of the wire bundles within the shaft core and arrive at an optimum product that provides maximum bending flexibility and torsional strength while allowing minimal torsional deflection with up to a 30 percent improvement above accepted industry standards.