Downside of Composites
Large fractions of modern passenger aircraft are made of composite materials. When they outlive their usefulness, they will face a disposal problem similar to that of the Trabant, the automobile inexpensively manufactured in East Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall. The Trabant had body...
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