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I dont have any expertise either, but wouldnt it be more feasible to make a mobile factory that can be built on site? Power shouldnt be a problem, a huge cable

I dont have any expertise either, but wouldnt it be more feasible to make a mobile factory that can be built on site? Power shouldnt be a problem, a huge cable needs to be laid anyway. Just turn it around after the job is done. Just have a traveling circus with a large construction tent. Trailers that connect to each other etc. Sound more feasible than a plane to be honest.

usrusr 3y ago
That's an approach explored by many it seems, and success on this front would certainly have to be considered a risk of investment in novel transport solutions. As far as I know, factories heat-treat (and pressure-treat) those composites in one go, in a huge oven enclosing the entire blade. On-site manufacture would either require those huge heat treatment units built locally or somehow made transportable, or a process that does without. It might be a bit of a chicken/egg situation, the materials science required to do without the full-size oven not being worthwhile without a transportable implementation of all the assembly and layup arrangement that would have to be done before, and the logistics not happening without a solution on the materials side.