With Glue, Japan Uses Composite For Fighter Substructure

Credit: Substructure: ATLA
TOKYO—Japanese engineers, working on replacing fasteners with glue, are applying composite to combat-aircraft substructure as well as the skin. A full-scale mid-fuselage, now under strength testing as part of the technology acquisition effort for Japan’s Future Fighter program, incorporates the...

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