Category: Aircraft Roll

Fly Me to the Moon If you were ever to overhear someone saying that Kyle Jorgenson has his head in the clouds, you shouldn’t jump to the conclusion that they mean it in a bad way. Perhaps it started when he was serving in the U.S. Army as a helicopter mechanic, but the founder of […]

When You Need to Build an Airplane Not long ago the owner of a fabrication company needed to make some intricate curves in metal that altered their geometry along the length of the workpiece. Realizing that it resembled the varying contours found in an aircraft wing, he learned that a machine known as an aircraft […]

Aircraft rolls are long, extremely specialized sheet metal rolling machines designed largely for one specific purpose: to roll the metallic “skin” of the forward edge of aircraft wings in the correct contoured shape to properly generate lift while in flight. The shape of most wing edges will change in thickness and angle from the tip […]