Grumman EMF Torque Tube - Invented By My Dad - YouTube
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This video shows one of my dad's (Robert L Benoit's) inventions, the EMF Torque Tube, from Grumman Aerospace. You can still see these green tubes on the wing flaps of every Boeing commercial airliner in use today. They were also used in the F-14 Tomcat - the awesome fighter jet from the Top Gun movies - which is also shown in this vid briefly. (My dad was also responsible for the design of the flight controls on that aircraft.) My dad's key innovation was to make use of electromagnetic pulse forming to shape the metal joint. He had happened across an EMPF machine that was sitting mostly…
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