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Carbon Fibers 15 Aug 2018

Bye Aerospace receives order for 30 Sun Flyer 2s

Aspen Flying Club to use all-electric, composite material aircraft as trainers in its future fleet of aircraft.

15 Aug 2018

New Products: August 2018

CW’s monthly roundup of new products for the composites industry – this month has seen innovations from Altair, CGTech, General Plastics, Mahr, Open Mind, SABIC and Roth.

Construction 14 Aug 2018

University of Miami recognized for bridge reinforced with composite materials

The Innovation Bridge is the first concrete bridge on the UM campus entirely reinforced/prestressed with composite materials instead of steel.

Adhesives 14 Aug 2018

SD Mines' composite material demonstrated at composite bridge contest

Students engineered the design of the 2nd place winning bridge using a proprietary composite sheet material invented by a team of researchers at SD Mines.

Pultrusion 13 Aug 2018

ALMACO to hold pultrusion event in Brazil

The event will cover raw materials used in the manufacture of pultruded composites, including resins, reinforcements (glass and carbon fibers) and structural adhesives.

Prepregs 13 Aug 2018

Haydale supplies graphene for Juno aircraft

Juno demonstrates the viability of graphene enhanced prepreg material for structural applications and the ability to manufacture components using traditional composite manufacturing methods.

Carbon Fibers 13 Aug 2018

Zephyr sets new flight duration record during maiden flight

Airbus’ solar–electric, stratospheric Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) completes maiden flight of over 25 days, the longest duration flight ever made.

Carbon Fibers 10 Aug 2018

The Parker Solar Probe is pretty cool – thanks to carbon composite

Given the extreme temperatures of the Sun’s corona how can NASA’s Parker Solar Probe endure the region to carry out its mission to study our local star?

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