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Article: Hunt Aviation, Alom Group Agree on FRP Composites Material Production.
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- Advanced Materials & Composites News
- Article date:
- March 1, 2004
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March 4, 2004 - Hunt Aviation Corporation of Pass Christian, Miss., signed a composite materials production agreement with Alom Group of Kuching, Malaysia, and arranged for executive consulting services with advanced polymer developers John W. Flock and Leslie J. Goff. Hunt Aviation is working to build a revolutionary new so-called "gravityplane" that they claim does not need fuel to fly.
Further, the company has developed a Matrix-brand composite material that begins in a flexible form conforming to any shape and hardening into a lightweight composite with a good strength-to-weight ratio. The material can assume the curved shapes of molds used to build the hull ...