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JSF flying on more composites.(Brief Article)
Plastics News, July, 2002 by Renstrom, Roger
Designers creating the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter plan to combine best-value production techniques and extensive polymer matrix composites. Thick composite wings will help carry the physical load in the multifunction aircraft, which is targeted for a broad international market. JSF designers begin on the outside with precise surfaces incorporating low-observable stealth characteristics.
In the past, designers created interior structures first and worked later on exteriors. The program uses more composites and less titanium than recent fighters, Tom Burbage said May 14 in Long Beach, Calif., to the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering. Burbage is executive vice president of Lockheed Martin Corp.'s aeronautics company in Fort...
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