<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">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.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">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.</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">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.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">And why do you guys care? are you building
something pattern secret????</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Composites are booming...good time to
be in this business...</font>
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Gray Fowler<br>
Senior Principal Chemical Engineer<br>
Radome and Composites Engineering<br>
Raytheon</font>
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<br><font size=3>That figures, leave it to the government to f*** something
up !<br>
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<br><font size=3>FYI, I had not heard anything about this.</font>
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