1 December 2020: S.S White Technologies recently provided flexible shafts to CIRCOR Boder wheel speed transducer (WSTs). They are to be used on the Dassault Falcon 6X scheduled for its maiden flight. S.S. White flexible rotary shafts help ensures the proper measurement of the aircraft’s wheel’s rotational speed for precise braking control during landing.
S.S. White flexible shafts are precisely designed, manufactured and tested to tolerate misalignment of the installation while proving a ‘constant’ torsional stiffness (deflection) throughout each wheel revolution. The shafts hysteresis characteristics are balanced (equal within defined limits) in both clockwise and counter clockwise directions. In addition to the new Dassault Falcon 6X, CIRCOR’s WSTs fitted with S.S. White flexible rotary shafts are operating on most modern business jets built in the USA and Europe.
In addition, all aerospace flexible shaft products are designed to one of the industry’s highest performance criteria by utilizing a unique computer modelling program developed by S.S. White called PERFLEXION. This program allows design engineers to fully model the behavioural characteristics of the wire bundles within the shaft core and arrive at an optimum product that provides maximum bending flexibility while allowing minimal torsion deflection with up to a 30 per cent improvement above accepted industry standards.
