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Cool.


http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/materials_science/index.html

After my post yesterday on the carbon-fiber wings on Boeing's new 787 jet, reader Craig Steffen pinged to alert me to a mistake I made. He points out that while the 787 is certainly an ambitious deployment of carbon-fiber composite, it ain't the first commercial attempt. That honor seems to go to the Beech Starship. "Even though only 53 were ever made, [it] was certainly a production aircraft," Craig writes. "It was made entirely, wings and all, of carbon fiber."