A new approach to making airplane parts, minus the massive infrastructure
Monday, January 13, 2020 - 10:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
A modern airplane’s fuselage is made from multiple sheets of different composite materials, like so many layers in a phyllo-dough pastry. Once these layers are stacked and molded into the shape of a fuselage, the structures are wheeled into warehouse-sized ovens and autoclaves, where the layers fuse together to form a resilient, aerodynamic shell. Now […]