FTI offers a new way of thinking about aircraft design. Our new FleXmate Advanced Aerospace Fitting process is a new system for installing hardware that is beneficial to your aircraft structure. This system supports current manufacturing practices and is flexible in its uses – from fuel and gases fittings to hydraulics, electrical and drain fittings.

Legacy Fittings are usually large and heavily flanged requiring a thick or large diameter pad up. The assembly is often complex with multiple penetrations that require satellite fasteners around the fitting. This adds weight to the structure and limits the design of the aircraft.

The FleXmate system offers a better way of installing these fittings. Using our advance knowledge of the cold expansion process, we can provide a fitting that gives you design flexibility, offers structural durability, saves weight, and reduces production and maintenance costs.

Types of FleXmate fittings:

• Fuel and Fluid couplings
• Electrical Connectors
• Hydraulic Fitting
• Drain Fittings
• Other Specialty Connectors and Adapters

Some of the benefits include:

• Weight reduction
• Smaller footprint
• Simple one-piece designs
• Simplified assembly
• Electrically conductive
• Interference fit installation
• Typically 2:1 life improvement
• Elimination of satellite holes
• Excellent sealing characteristics
• Proven technology

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