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Composites are the way to go in Airframes, the amount of effort poured into this area is incredible. I think the new 787 (haha "new") is primarily composite and

• redis_mlc 6y ago
  > Composites are the way to go in Airframes Well, not really - that's mostly an HN fanboi comment. - composites are often the same weight as aluminum when all is said and done - composites normally are only good for subsonic flight because of skin heating - large-area composites require multiple large autoclaves, etc. when normally there's only one. - composites are more difficult to repair than metal. If a baggage cart hits your composite fuselage or wing, how do you fix that? How long will that take? Metal is high-tech to me, not composites.