A Grand Rapids, Mich., company reports it recently installed a new milling machine it calls the largest of its kind in the world, capable of cutting “the entire fuselage of a fighter jet within a hair's width of tolerance.” The double-gantry, five-axis FIDIA milling machine is comparable in size and length to a car wash, according to the machining and fabricating company.
The machine is valued at $3.5 million. It has a worktable that measures 60 feet by 12 feet, “with virtually unlimited weight capacity.” It was built by FIDIA S.p.A. at San Mauro Torinese, in Italy.
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