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Well at least carbon fiber composites are not new, used in Formula 1 probably when most posters here weren't born. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLaren_MP4/1 h
by Gravityloss 5y ago
Well at least carbon fiber composites are not new, used in Formula 1 probably when most posters here weren't born. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLaren_MP4/1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLaren_MP4/1
- JKCalhoun 5y agoHa ha, I was a teenager. Formula 1 though were never looking for 50-year integrity for their cars. While your example establishes the beginning of the use of carbon fiber, it seems otherwise orthogonal to its present use in commercial aircraft.
- Gravityloss 5y ago1981 is hardly the beginning. It was for example used in the Airbus A300, which entered service in 1974. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A300 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A300 Infamous but acquitted from the rudder incident on American Airlines Flight 587 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Fractured-carbon-fibers-showing-crack-growth-directions_fig3_279693318 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Fractured-carbon-fibers-...