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Airship and Submersible craft
based on inventions and designs from
Nikola Tesla and Viktor Schauberger
http://www.frank.germano.com/airship.htm


Composite fan blade containment case
http://www.compositesworld.com/hpc/issues/2005/May/866

A fan case made from A&P's braided preform, showing the integral flanges and the profile formed on the capstan.

NASA GRC's materials research engineer Gary Roberts led a research project to develop the new generation of composite fan case materials, to demonstrate improved containment capability and damage tolerance for composite materials; demonstrate commercial feasibility; and mitigate the risk of using the new composite technology. A&P Technology's Mike Braley demonstrated the containment capability, damage tolerance and commercial feasibility of a braided reinforcement during a NASA-sponsored SBIR Program.......................(pg 2) The technology has been successfully demonstrated for the hardwall-type case and may find its first application on a turbofan jet engine built by Williams International (Walled Lake, Mich.).

http://www.tech.plym.ac.uk/sme/MATS231/applications.htm