Industry Digest

Keep up to date with the latest news of interest to the composites industry

Carbon Fiber Skin Being Developed to Protect Stealth Aircraft

Stealth fighter jets for use by the U.S. Air Force can cost up to $100 million, and it costs up to $10 million to train a stealth fighter jet pilot. It’s clearly important to protect both the pilots and...

Composite Materials Give Summer Olympians and Paralympians a Competitive Edge

The Olympic motto - Citius, Altius, Fortius – Communiter in Latin and Higher, Stronger, Faster – Together in English, has historically applied to the performance of the Olympic and Paralympic athletes. As...

Carbon Fiber Prepregs Used in Lightweight Camera Drone

A team of six students in the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria’s lightweight construction and composite materials course worked with eight industrial partners to design and build a camera...

NASA Developing an Advanced Composite Solar Sail System for Future Space Missions

A team at NASA’s Langley Research Center, with partners from NASA Ames Research Center, NanoAvionics, and Santa Clara University’s Robotics Systems Lab, is...

Clean Sky’s SHERLOC Program Using Integrated Sensors to Monitor Composites

Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) has many potential benefits for the aviation industry, including that it is non-destructive testing that could improve damage detection in composite structures, add...

Lightweight Motorcycle Helmet Developed with Fiber-Reinforced Composites

The team at Helicoid Industries saw the need for a lighter, stronger motorcycle helmet to enhance safety and performance for both consumer riders and competitive racers. The lighter helmet lowers inertia,...