Applications of plastics in aircraft; history of aircraft industry growth and present aircraft production and sales; survey of aircraft parts made of various types of polymeric materials; main advantages of plastics uses on aircraft are that higher strength-to-weight ratio can be realized and aircraft part can be fabricated at lower cost and faster than with metals and other materials; use of plastic tools in aircraft industry; reinforced plastics air-frame structures made on automated production lines promise increase of production rates and great savings; sandwich construction and sealants to be used on 280-passenger supersonic transport; effect of government regulations on aircraft growth; influence of Vietnamese war on research and development of aircraft plastics. (n 8 Aug 1967 p 44-57, n 9 Sept p 52-7)


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    Title :

    Weighing out aircraft market -- 1, 2, 3, 4


    Additional title:

    Plastics World


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Plastics World ; 25 , n 8-9


    Publication date :

    1967


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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