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Light-sport Plane Category Creates Take-off Point For Composites

Composites manufacturers and suppliers — and pilots — benefit from new FAA aircraft designation.

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An Elegant Solution For A Big Composite Part

The rear pressure bulkhead for the Airbus A380 employs resin film infusion.

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AGATE Methodology Proves Its Worth

Increased availability, lower testing costs and shorter development times are among the program's achievements.

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Automotive

Brandt Goldsworthy: Composites Visionary

A tribute to a pioneer and innovator who helped define seven decades of composites industry history.

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Manufacturers Welcome New Reinforcement Forms

Three-dimensional composites, structural preforms and unique materials expand design options and reduce cost.

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Offshore Applications: The Future Is Now

The number of composites installations continues to grow on new and existing offshore facilities.

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Complex Composites Lighten Nato Copter

Dutch consortium develops advanced composite critical landing gear that meets NH90 helicopter performance requirements.

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New Options In Personal Ballistic Protection

Emerging materials and processing techniques expand choices for manufacturers of vests, helmets and shields.

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High-Performance Composites March 2003 Editorial

"Performance" seems to be the password to this issue of High-Performance Composites. Every article demonstrates the incredibly high expectations engineers place on composite materials and how new material options and improved processing technologies keep meeting those expectations. Technologies used since the

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Foam plays strategic role in rotorcraft structure

Eurocopter's Tiger helicopter incorporates an engine cowling stiffened with hat stringers made with ROHACELL XT polymethacrylimide (PMI) foam from Degussa Performance Plastics (Darmstadt, Germany). Previously, the approximately 1.5m/4.8-ft long and 0.8m/2.6-ft wide cowling was a solid laminate made with bismaleimide

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