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Carbon fiber by land and air.
Awesome R&T story....
http://www.roadandtrack.com/article.asp?section_id=9&article_id=2352
While it's been used in the high-tech world of racing cars and military aircraft for more than two decades, carbon fiber is finally begining to metriculate its way into limited production cars and aircraft rather than single one-off projects.
While the SLR McLaren and Beechcraft Premier I business jet aren't exactly going to be produced in what could be considered "high-volume," their respective scheduled production runs are quite impressive. But, more importantly, there are important carbon-fiber components in each vehicle that can be produced in a cost-effective, mass production method.
The SLR McLaren features conical, energy-absorbing pylons within the car's frontal crash structure area that progressively collapse in the event of a heavy frontal impact. It takes 48 reels of carbon-fiber — 25,000 filaments in all — wrapped at various angles for maximum effectiveness to creat just one of these structures. Amazingly, the manufacturing process takes all of 12 minutes per unit.
In the case of the Beechcraft Premier I, the jet's fuselage is formed by wrapping carbon fiber strands at various angles around a mandrel. Thanks to the fuselage's much thinner wall profile to that of an aluminum-bodied plane the Premier I offers mid-size jet roominess in a small-jet package.
Great video too link is on page: mms://c9o.earthcache.net/woc-01.media.globix.net/COMP000787MOD1/roadandtrack/2005/0507_slr_jet_lo.wmv
Carbon fiber by land and air.
Awesome R&T story....
http://www.roadandtrack.com/article.asp?section_id=9&article_id=2352
While it's been used in the high-tech world of racing cars and military aircraft for more than two decades, carbon fiber is finally begining to metriculate its way into limited production cars and aircraft rather than single one-off projects.
While the SLR McLaren and Beechcraft Premier I business jet aren't exactly going to be produced in what could be considered "high-volume," their respective scheduled production runs are quite impressive. But, more importantly, there are important carbon-fiber components in each vehicle that can be produced in a cost-effective, mass production method.
The SLR McLaren features conical, energy-absorbing pylons within the car's frontal crash structure area that progressively collapse in the event of a heavy frontal impact. It takes 48 reels of carbon-fiber — 25,000 filaments in all — wrapped at various angles for maximum effectiveness to creat just one of these structures. Amazingly, the manufacturing process takes all of 12 minutes per unit.
In the case of the Beechcraft Premier I, the jet's fuselage is formed by wrapping carbon fiber strands at various angles around a mandrel. Thanks to the fuselage's much thinner wall profile to that of an aluminum-bodied plane the Premier I offers mid-size jet roominess in a small-jet package.
Great video too link is on page: mms://c9o.earthcache.net/woc-01.media.globix.net/COMP000787MOD1/roadandtrack/2005/0507_slr_jet_lo.wmv
