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Originally Posted by mattr
To be fair, aerospace as an industry is usually 10 years or more behind the cutting edge except in a very limited number of fields. Materials is mostly where the tech is. Composites and super alloys...... Giving them a Lipo is like giving a caveman a mobile phone......
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Materials yes, but also manufacturing processes. Making the parts out of those latest materials pushes every manufacturing process you can think of to its limits. We are an inventive lot in aerospace; most people would not believe what can be achieved or what is required for an aerospace part, be it airframe or engine.
It always amuses me when things are advertised as CNC-machined - you can't buy a new machine tool worth using that doesn't have an CNC controller on it. As if being machined automatically was something new...!!
Way off topic now; I'll get me coat...
