Italy Pushes High-Speed Materials Tests
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Italy is conducting plasma wind-tunnel tests of wing-box structures using advanced materials, in an effort to develop technology applicable to high Mach-number flight. Trials of a first design were conducted in June, with a second concept to be tested in September. The first wing-box to be tested...
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