Feb 19, 2016
Carsales.com.au - ‘Ford-first carbon intake for XR6 Sprint’ Tuesday, 16 February 2016
- XR6 Sprint will be the most powerful six-cylinder factory Falcon ever produced and be the first carbon-fibre air-intake system, manufactured by the same Australian company that supplies the international F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program
- Apart from automotive component production site in Geelong, Quickstep has an office in Munich, Germany and a state-of-the-art aerospace manufacturing facility at Bankstown Airport (where it produces F-35 – world’s largest military aerospace program valued $US300 billion worldwide)
- Quickstep also selected by Lockheed Martin as sole supplier of composite wing flaps for C-130J ‘Super Hercules’
- Quickstep deveops patented manufacturing technologies to produce high-volume A-grade finished composite components…. Signed a letter of intent to devlier components for Thales Australia’s Hawkei protected mobility vehicle
- Ford is Quickstep’s first automotive OEM client
- Carbon-fibre sourced from UK, pre-infused with resin
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