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Article: Composites: taking these materials too lightly can have a heavy consequence.(Airframe Technology)( Commercial Aircraft Composite Repair Committee)
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- Aircraft Maintenance Technology
- Article date:
- June 1, 2005
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We are seeing more and more aircraft these days with composite structures. Although this is something that the major airlines have been dealing with for quite a while, general aviation is not immune to working with composites. With newer aircraft using more composite components (even the virtually all-composite Cirrus and Lancair aircraft) it is inevitable that most of us will be working with composites in the hangar environment. Here are a few tips to help get you up to speed when working with composites.
Lack of uniformity
Unlike working with aluminum, working with composites is usually a very aircraft-specific process. Mike Hoke, president of Abaris ...