April 7, 2021
COEUR DâALENE, ID. â April 7, 2021 â Continuous Composites successfully completed the Air Force Research Laboratoryâs two-year Wing Structure Design for Manufacturing (WiSDM) contract through Lockheed Martin to manufacture a Low Cost Attritable Aircraft (LCAA) wing. The project focused on a new structural design paradigm, when coupled with commensurate materials and manufacturing, to substantially reduce costs and lead times for attritable airframe structures. Continuous Compositesâ patented Continuous Fiber 3D Printing (CF3D®) technology successfully printed the structural carbon fiber spars of the wing assembly. Structural performance was demonstrated when the completed wing box was statically tested and achieved 160% design limit load (DLL) before the compression skin buckled. The spars did not fail.
pings and confirm they re real, they re going to keep looking until they re confident things are stop being sent. we re well past the 30-day design limit of the pingers. we might expect to see an extra five, six days, but they are pretty much dead now. so it doesn t mean that if they rely on the ping data, we re not looking at 15,000 miles. we re probably looking at an area about the size of the city of washington. so it s come down a lot more. that becomes feasible. if you re sending one of these aevs down, they re moving very slowly, about 4 miles an hour. they re surveying a very small area. these only may be 50 meters, 100 meters. that will take a long time. so this is why they put so much effort on the pinger first. otherwise, it s just a random deployment. so mary, the follow-up to that statement i m going to bring to you. if over the next 24 hour, 48