CUTTING X-32 FABRICATION TIME

Boeing X-32 Joint Strike Fighter engineers were facing the prospect of large composite pieces taking so long to lay up that the graphite epoxy tape would exceed its 30-day out-of-refrigerator time limit before the part could be cured, if traditional hand methods were used. A major problem was use of...

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