The invention discloses a radial milling method for an edge head curved surface of a 
thin walled vane. At first, three-
dimensional modeling is carried out on the 
thin walled vane to be processed, the 
processing coordinate 
system of the three-dimensional model of the 
thin walled vane is adjusted, a vane basin curved surface, a vane back curved surface, a 
front edge curved surface and a back edge curved surface are respectively extracted, effective 
processing regions are divided on the vane curved surface and contact point track is designed on the vane basin curved surface and the vane back curved surface, thus obtaining a contact 
point trajectory covering the whole 
processing region. Then a non-uniform B sampling curve that connects the trajectory of the vane basin 
cutter location and the trajectory of the vane back 
cutter location is constructed on the 
front edge and the back edge of the vane, and the corresponding cutter-axis vector and the 
cutter location are calculated. As only the vane basin curved surface and the vane back curved surface are involved in the 
cutting in the processing process, the 
front edge curved surface and the back edge curved surface are processed separately, thus avoiding over-
cutting caused by intensive cutter locations on the front edge and the back edge and violent change of the cutter-axis vector. The processing precision can be improved to 0.05 to 0.10mm from 0.24 to 0.60mm of the prior art, and the processing efficiency can be improved at the same time.