At the Fluid Power & Systems 2018 exhibition, held at the NEC in Birmingham from 10-12th April, motorsport and drag racing enthusiast Graham Sykes gave a preview of his steam-powered rocket bike named Force of Nature. It is the culmination of almost six years' work by the precision engineer, which involved designing and then producing all of the prismatic parts on a Hurco vertical machining centre, mostly from DXF files output from AutoCad an...

A seventh 5-axis machining centre has been installed at Preston-based, tier-2 aerospace subcontractor, TGM, primarily to cope with increasing volumes of Airbus A350 work. Two years ago, each month the firm was delivering four port and starboard aircraft wing sets comprising 20 parts each, whereas today 10 sets per month are required and the number will climb further over the next two years.