Purpose of Piper Aircraft's Vero Beach Development Center, Project PA-29, was to explore possibility of building airplane using materials and processes that might replace aluminum alloy; construction techniques used with respect to wings, fuselage, and molds; material design and characteristics; joining problems; results of tests of prototype which first flew in Apr 1962.


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    Title :

    Experience with reinforced plastic primary aircraft structures


    Additional title:

    SAE -- Paper


    Contributors:
    Snyder, F.S. (author) / Drake, R.E. (author)

    Conference:

    SAE Meeting ; 1963 Plastics



    Publication date :

    1963


    Size :

    4 pages


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English