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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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!</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=gfowler@raytheon.com href="mailto:gfowler@raytheon.com">Gray E
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, July 18, 2006 3:31
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Carbon
fiber shortage</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>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> <BR><BR><FONT
face=sans-serif size=2>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 face=sans-serif
size=2>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> <BR><BR><FONT
face=sans-serif size=2>And why do you guys care? are you building something
pattern secret????</FONT> <BR><BR><FONT face=sans-serif size=2>Composites are
booming...good time to be in this business...</FONT> <BR><FONT face=sans-serif
size=2><BR><BR><BR>Gray Fowler<BR>Senior Principal Chemical Engineer<BR>Radome
and Composites Engineering<BR>Raytheon</FONT> <BR><BR><BR>
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<TD width="40%"><FONT face=sans-serif size=1><B>Tommy Scarmardo
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<P><FONT face=sans-serif size=1>07/18/2006 03:48 PM</FONT>
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size=3>That figures, leave it to the government to f*** something up
!<BR><B><I><BR>Bob Richards <bob@toprudder.com></I></B> wrote:
</FONT><BR><FONT size=3>FYI, I had not heard anything about this.</FONT>
<BR><FONT size=3> </FONT> <BR><A
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