When inching along in traffic during a particularly slow morning commute, you might have wished for your car to lift off the ground and soar over the congested traffic in order to avoid the slow frustration of rush hour, a la the flying car in the classic […]
Materially Different, Mechanically Similar: HX5® vs. 6061-T6 Aluminum
Typically used for applications where a high strength-to-weight ratio is critical – such as aerospace, defense, advanced transportation, performance recreation, and more – 6061-T6 is a tempered version of the 6061 aluminum alloy, one of the most commonly used […]
Defending Ingenuity: Driving Innovation with Composites in Defense
The rate of change in Defense technology will never be slower than it is today. Evidence shows that the earliest forms of humans used spears for hunting and defense as early as 400,000 BC. Thousands of years later, as humans and technology evolved, so did the […]