Editorial

Editorial

When design and engineering meet

In a designer’s perfect world, the challenge of manufacturability does not exist. 

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Aerospace

Sitting on the cusp of a paradigm shift

My wife and I had to fly to New Jersey recently. As we boarded the plane and took our seats, I pointed out the window at the wing of the jet we were on and said something about how, soon, the wing and much of the fuselage of planes like this would be made from carbon fiber composites.

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Editorial

Jeff Sloan's first editorial for Composites Technology

A lot of the "old guard"manufacturing processes in the U.S. (metal bending, metal machining, metal casting, etc.) grew up and prospered with the automotive industry, and it was on the coattails of these workhorses that the 20th Century American manufacturing boom rode to prominence.

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