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Norton Performance Plastics' Composites Operation has been selling quartz fiber radomes since the early 1990s on the claim that their approximately 20-percent higher cost will be offset by durability. That claim is now being tested. A Northwest Airlines A320 fitted with a quartz radome recently hit...

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