[NSRCA-discussion] Carbon fiber shortage

[Michael Cohen]

Don't worry, our mostly metal Eclipse and other VLJs will pull business travelers away from the heavies once they realize the cost benefits of bypassing the hubs and flying in and out of local airfields in half the door to door time of the airlines.  Less business travelers = less income = less A350/380/787 and more composites for R/C planes.  Yeah!
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  From: Gray E Fowler 
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  Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 3:31 PM
  Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Carbon fiber shortage



  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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