Next-gen carbon fiber to build faster featherweight jets
How do you make super light, super strong carbon fibers even lighter and stronger? To lighten planes’ loads, aerospace engineers have turned to carbon-fiber composites, which match aluminum and titanium in strength, but at a fraction of the weight. These fibers can be 10 times thinner than human hair, and they’ve reduced the weight of Boeing and Airbus aircrafts by 20 percent.
