Editorial
Shooting trouble
I know it’s only April, but in the magazine business, we’re always looking ahead. About this time each year, I start thinking seriously about the next year. I think about the topics we might cover, the types of articles we might approach differently, technologies that we’ve not visited in a while and emerging
Read MoreStartup struggles
A week before Adam Aircraft made the somewhat surprising announcement that it had run out of cash and couldn’t find anyone to lend it money, I found myself on the phone with one of the company’s composites design engineers. We were discussing trends in composites design for aerospace, aerospace design challenges, and
Read MoreOil drives the Big Three
This is, in some ways, a tough time to be a U.S.-based automaker. Detroit’s traditional Big Three (GM, Chrysler, Ford) are struggling to keep up with Japan’s Big Three (Toyota, Honda, Nissan) and trying hard to develop cars and trucks that are good-looking, reliable and fuel-efficient. On top of this, rising oil
Read MoreWhat's old is new again
Happy New Year. As it does for many of you, the December-to-January jump heralds for us at HPC a renewal of sorts as we delve into a fresh collection of stories and welcome some new contributing writers. Among the new names you’ll see in our bylines, one that might be familiar is Chris Red. The editor and VP of market
Read MoreComposites, chemistry and science
I met a guy in bar. We started talking composites. I learned some important things.
Read MoreRepairing flying composite structures
As the Boeing 787 nears first flight, certification and delivery and as the design of the Airbus A350 XWB is solidified, we hear more and more about how airlines that fly these planes might deal with maintenance and repair.
Read MoreIf autocomposites were easy, it would have been done already
I was asked to moderate a five-person panel that took place on the last day of the 2007 SPE Automotive Composites Conference and Exhibition (ACCE) in Troy, Mich.: “How to market the value of composites.”
Read MoreCarbon, glass fiber mix it up
For most of the last several decades, whenever someone used the words “composites” and “boats” in the same sentence, it’s likely that you immediately thought “fiberglass.” And rightfully so.
Read MoreMansplaining composites
We had some friends over for dinner the other night. They’d read about the recent rollout of Boeing’s 787, heard that these marvelous “composites” were used extensively on the plane, remembered that I edited a composites magazine and started quizzing me about what composites are.
Read MoreThe clarity of the retrospectroscope
My mind is easily distracted and consumed by the time-space continuum. Not the Star Trek kind, but the real-life kind.
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