[NSRCA-discussion] Carbon fiber shortage

[Gray E Fowler]

Its not really the government.  For years military projects were the ONLY 
user of carbon fiber. When the defense budgets were cut about 1992, many 
CF companies shut down, merged etc. Then the commercial aerospace industry 
re-discovered CF and the battle between Boeing and Airbus started and the 
way to cut each others throats was to build a plane to outperform, which 
means lots of CF composites. These planes use much more than the 325 
F-22's and JSF is BARELY started.

Good news though...CF manufacturers are building new capacity and Boeing 
is out selling Airbus 4 to 1. The A380 is behind schedule which will free 
up some near term CF supplies (2-3 years)  and in my opinion the A380 is a 
dumb idea, destined for a very limited purchase, cuz if it aint75% full 
then its a money loser.
A350 is is dumber and will never fly-if it does it will KILL Airbus in 
combination with the A380.-my opinion...could be wrong.

And why do you guys care? are you building something pattern secret????

Composites are booming...good time to be in this business...



Gray Fowler
Senior Principal Chemical Engineer
Radome and Composites Engineering
Raytheon



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That figures, leave it to the government to f*** something up !

Bob Richards <bob at toprudder.com> wrote: 
FYI, I had not heard anything about this.
 
http://www.fibreglast.com/carbonfibershortage
 
Bob R.
 
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