Industry Digest

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Carbon Fiber Composites Used Inside and Out on MANSORY’s Conversion of the Audi RS Q8

MANSORY followed-up its successful conversion of an Audi RS6 estate car with the conversion of the Audi RS Q8 luxury SUV. The RS Q8 is based on the style of the RS6, with even more aggressive carbon fiber use...

NASA Developing New Planetary Construction Technologies with Advanced Materials

NASA plans to continue lunar exploration and will need to build structures on the Moon to allow astronauts and explorers to work and stay there safely and sustainably. This is the next step in plans to further...

Carbon Fiber Impellers Power BMW i’s Electrified Wingsuit

The BMW i Electrified Wingsuit is the next innovation in wingsuits, powered by impellers for sustainable energy. The Electrified Wingsuit features two carbon fiber impellers which are each powered by a 10...

Dawn Aerospace Using Composites to 3D Print Rocket Engines

The team at Dawn Aerospace plans to use composites and additive manufacturing to develop sustainable and scalable space transportation. The European Space Agency recently awarded Dawn a €385K contract to...

Flying Car Designed with Composites Ready to Hit the Road, and Soon, the Sky

PAL-V started flying and driving its flying car test prototypes back in 2012. That testing led to PAL-V designing its first flying car to be available commercially, the Liberty. The PAL-V’s hybrid composite...

America’s Cup Competitor Relies on Composites for Speed and Strength

Symmetrix Composite Tooling is a Supplier/Technical Partner with New York Yacht Club American Magic, the U.S. Challenger for the 36th America’s Cup. To provide the necessary patterns and molds for...