Veteran Farnborough exhibitor Liebherr-Aerospace is here showcasing its flight control and actuation, air management, landing gear, and gearbox products designed and made for the civil and military markets.

The German company’s wide-ranging display (Hall 4 Stand B100), occupying some 2,700 square feet (250 square meters), includes a nose landing gear housing with a cadmium-free—and thus more environmentally friendly—corrosion protection coating; an animated film depicting how the flight controls and air management systems Liebherr develops and manufactures function; and a weight-optimized bell crank for a helicopter’s main rotor actuator, made by additive layer manufacturing, or 3D printing—the first time Liebherr has displayed a bell crank at Farnborough.

Meanwhile, Liebherr’s components division, Liebherr-Elektronik GmbH, is highlighting its electronic control units and power electronics, including controllers for integrated air management systems, control and monitoring electronics for high-lift systems, and power electronics for an active differential gearbox. All these systems have proven their reliability in many aircraft programs, according to the company.

Liebherr, with more than five decades of aviation industry experience, develops and manufactures its portfolio of products at its Lindau facility in southern Germany, and can develop power electronics as well as control and monitoring electronic families up to design assurance level A (DAL A under RTCA DO-254).

In total, the company’s systems are used on widebody, single-aisle and regional jets, as well as business jets, jet fighters, military transports, military training aircraft, and civil and combat helicopters.