Woodward Gears and Gearing
Woodward’s Gearing Capabilities include Planetary Gearing, Spur Gearing, and Angle Gearing

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Woodward is an industry leader in design and development of actuation gearing for aerospace and defense motion-control applications.

Woodward’s gearing capabilities include:

Planetary Gearing (including Hinge-Lines)
Spur Gearing
Angle Gearing (Angle Gearboxes)


Our gearheads can be supplied:

fully packaged as airframe LRUs (line-replaceable units)
simply housed for use in more protected environments
directly coupled to Woodward servomotors and components


Woodward’s gearing applications include: flight controls, utility actuation, navigation & target gimbals, turret drives, and ammunition handling.

Our gearing is famous for long life, high efficiency, and low backlash across the full aerospace/military temperature range. Woodward utilizes many stainless alloys and bearings for the construction of our gearing; these materials have excellent environmental resistance as well as matched temperature coefficients of thermal expansion.