Peter Grange
12-31-1969, 08:00 PM
On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 01:25:00 GMT, "Callistus Valerius"
<jazzyboss@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Boeing is building it's new plane, the dreamliner, with carbon fiber.
>The wings, fuselage. The cf must be consiberably more impact resistent than
>bike frames, or this would be suicide for Boeing. Hell of a note, if you
>looked out the window and saw the wing suddenly break off in some
>turbulence. Even though steel is real, I think Boeing skipped steel, and
>went straight to aluminum. Titanium, is too expensive and I think is only
>used in military planes. Boeing has sold a boat load of these dreamliners
>on contract already, but they still don't have a flying one yet. So if you
>fly a lot, you might have trouble finding a flight that isn't in a
>dreamliner when they start filling the skies.
>
IIRC, it was CF which bankrupted Rolls-Royce in the 70's, trying to
get it to work for turbine blades. The problem was it couldn't
withstand bird strikes. Hopefully CF has got better or the birds have
got worse since then....
<jazzyboss@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Boeing is building it's new plane, the dreamliner, with carbon fiber.
>The wings, fuselage. The cf must be consiberably more impact resistent than
>bike frames, or this would be suicide for Boeing. Hell of a note, if you
>looked out the window and saw the wing suddenly break off in some
>turbulence. Even though steel is real, I think Boeing skipped steel, and
>went straight to aluminum. Titanium, is too expensive and I think is only
>used in military planes. Boeing has sold a boat load of these dreamliners
>on contract already, but they still don't have a flying one yet. So if you
>fly a lot, you might have trouble finding a flight that isn't in a
>dreamliner when they start filling the skies.
>
IIRC, it was CF which bankrupted Rolls-Royce in the 70's, trying to
get it to work for turbine blades. The problem was it couldn't
withstand bird strikes. Hopefully CF has got better or the birds have
got worse since then....