Piscataway, NJ --- S.S. White Technologies, the leading supplier of flexible rotary shafts for the aerospace industry provides their flexible shafts to CIRCOR Bodet for their wheel speed transducers (WSTs) used on the Dassault Falcon 5X versatile aircraft’s landing gear braking systems for its first flight toward full certification testing. S.S. White flexible rotary shafts are specifically designed to help insure the proper measurement of the aircraft’s wheel’s rotational speed for precise braking control during landing.
S.S. White flexible shafts provide 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. CIRCOR Bodet’s WSTs fitted with S.S. White flexible rotary shafts are operating on most modern business jets built in Europe and USA.
In addition, all aerospace flexible shaft products are designed to one of the industry’s highest performance criteria by utilizing a unique computer modeling software program developed by S.S. White called PERFLEXION. This program allows the 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 torsion strength while allowing minimal torsion deflection with up to a 30 percent improvement above current industry standards.
S.S. White Technologies is a world leader in the designing; engineering, manufacture and testing of a wide variety of flexible shaft products for the aerospace, medical, automotive and industrial markets around the globe. Almost all of the commercial and military aircraft platforms in the air today (except Russian) and more than one-half of US manufactured cars rely on S.S. White Technologies flexible shaft products. The company currently has manufacturing facilities in the United States, the United Kingdom and India.
