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Carbon fiber, one of the Titan submersible's experimental materials, comes under scrutiny
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| June 23, 2023
| TOM COSTELLO AND MELISSA CHAN AND MARLENE LENTHANG
Posted on 06/26/2023 8:57:11 AM PDT by xxqqzz
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To: Organic Panic
It was a very big clave indeed. Even then the hull was cured in sections and bonded together . Did look at 120 ft x 24 ft clave to do it in one part.
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posted on
06/26/2023 11:55:40 AM PDT
by
rdcbn1
To: Organic Panic
Predator B started with composite landing gear and swapped to Titanium after Fleet wide failures. The Fuselage and Wings were
Carbon Fiber with Stainless steel hard points.
Fabulous Machines!
To: rdcbn1
unbelievable.
In this day this level of incompetence and total ignorance is mind boggling.
Oh, wait....
But really, what is the deal with the world today? Politics, technology, AI, germ warefare....we really are on borrowed time if idiots like this can rise to positions of colossal prominence while still breathing air. The gene pool really is not functioning efficiently right now, endangering the whole herd.
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posted on
06/26/2023 12:05:05 PM PDT
by
griffin
(When you have to shoot, SHOOT; don't talk. -Tuco)
To: Big Red Badger
LOL!
Yep. I worked on the Cirrus SR20 composite aircraft development back in the 90’s.
Unreal the level of incompetence now. We see it at the federal level, obviously. I now assume it is all around us. Now I must assume it has infected bio-weapon containment and nuclear weapon safeguards as well.
The risk is high that we truly are on borrowed time for a major ‘thing’.
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posted on
06/26/2023 12:09:42 PM PDT
by
griffin
(When you have to shoot, SHOOT; don't talk. -Tuco)
To: GingisK
“No, they always tested it with people in it.”
I hope they have a good insurance carrier.
To: rdcbn1
kinda like....
![7Fx8KQJ](https://i.ibb.co/dmXK5Ck/7Fx8KQJ.gif)
But not quite.
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posted on
06/26/2023 12:13:40 PM PDT
by
griffin
(When you have to shoot, SHOOT; don't talk. -Tuco)
To: Abathar
You have a really cool job. Wanna buy a few nice CNC machines?
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posted on
06/26/2023 12:15:12 PM PDT
by
rdcbn1
To: xxqqzz
88
posted on
06/26/2023 12:17:39 PM PDT
by
sauropod
(“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
To: griffin
Technology gets more sophisticated but the human skill factors is definitely going down hill on average.Has been this way since the end of the cold war. But the really good guys are actually better than ever. There just are not too many around
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posted on
06/26/2023 12:19:17 PM PDT
by
rdcbn1
To: Organic Panic
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posted on
06/26/2023 12:20:33 PM PDT
by
griffin
(When you have to shoot, SHOOT; don't talk. -Tuco)
To: rdcbn1
I would agree regarding our engineering and science fields.
I was more referring to the people who have been placed in positions of authority, management and cost controls over us.
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posted on
06/26/2023 12:25:29 PM PDT
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griffin
(When you have to shoot, SHOOT; don't talk. -Tuco)
To: Ann Archy
I will argue differently.
Rush was most likely a technical illiterate who dreamed up a solution to a problem. He just decided to make a CF pressure vessel and did.
At best, Rush was just an ignorant fool
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posted on
06/26/2023 12:27:20 PM PDT
by
bert
( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day )
To: griffin
Oh yeah, management decision making just totally sucks these days. It's a huge problem.
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posted on
06/26/2023 12:44:17 PM PDT
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rdcbn1
To: NorthMountain
“Rush bought the carbon fiber at a big discount, as it was too old to use on airplanes”.
Bought off eBay?
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posted on
06/26/2023 12:58:47 PM PDT
by
Does so
( 🇺🇦...................."Who is Ray Epps?" should be overstamped on every piece of currency.)
To: griffin
Yuppers...
They Went Woke.
I just Went.
To: Does so
I have read that he bought it from Boeing ... that it was aged-out for use in aircraft.
For background, much of the 787 airframe is carbon composite. An airliner fuselage is a pressure vessel, but under nowhere near the stress of diving to >12,000 feet. Also, an airliner fuselage is pressurized from the inside, putting the fibers in tension rather than compression.
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posted on
06/26/2023 1:32:14 PM PDT
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: Big Red Badger
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posted on
06/26/2023 2:51:09 PM PDT
by
griffin
(When you have to shoot, SHOOT; don't talk. -Tuco)
To: rdcbn1
I’m always interested in that...
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posted on
06/27/2023 4:31:51 AM PDT
by
Abathar
(Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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