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Enabling Technologies for Unified Life-Cycle Engineering of Structural Components

A composite horizontal stabilizer was chosen as the subject for the composite airframe structure case study. Life-cycle engineering was examined in today's environment from conceptual design through ...
JEC Composites

Dream Chaser orbital spacecraft composite structural airframe

Sierra Nevada Corporation’s (SNC) Space Systems and Dream Chaser program partner, Lockheed Martin unveiled the Dream Chaser orbital spacecraft composite airframe. This structure will be used to ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

Reusable Launch Vehicle: Technology Development and Test Program

Primary vehicle structure (PVS) is defined as the structure that carries loads from or to another structure or structures. Some examples of PVS in the RLV are the intertank, the payload bay, the ...
Flightglobal

Lockheed Martin to build composite cargo X-plane

Lockheed Martin is to modify a Dornier 328Jet regional aircraft to demonstrate advanced composite airframe technology for a future tactical airlifter. The company has been selected over Aurora Flight ...
Flightglobal

PARIS AIR SHOW: Skunk Works nears flight for new breed of all-composite aircraft

When the latest X-plane crafted by Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works team soon takes flight over Palmdale, California, observers will be watching a throwback to a previous era of experimental flight ...