Hi,
I got my focus back today---yesterday I was busy looking for groceries---only found 1 dozen eggs and a gallon bottle of milk---.
See---in the video the guy is just making a mould---a mould for just general use---.
So---leaving aside the making of the carbon fibre before moulding it to the shape you need---we won't talk about that---.
When you are making carbon fiber for fighter aircraft skin---the process is very high quality control intensive---. Then you have testing done on the material to see the longevity of your mould and wear and tear factor over a period of time---.
One of the biggest concern in using carbon fiber is that testing for micro cracks is not easy---.
An interesting 207 page thesis if someone wants to read it---.
Bottomline---carbon Fiber is wonderful but not without issues---. It is very cost and labor intensive---.
For paf---nothing works like the conventional Aluminum skin---.
But for stepping into the 21st century---one has to use the Carbon Fiber just to show that we use it---we know how to use it---we know how to manage and maintain it---and generally speaking---it is a good selling tool that we are a modern aircraft manufacturer---.
If you check out youtube there are a lot of carbon fiber parts being built, starting with the mold. Let's assume I don't know what I am talking about, why would Burt Rutan, one of the most celebrated aircraft designers in the last 40 years, say what he said? See quote in my last post. Think about it.
I worked on a project where I got to meet the CNS of a navy lets say from a third world asian country. The guy running the project had a relative in the higher up of the navy. He and the team pretended to be a Canadian defense contractor (and made me the American subsidiary of their pretended company).
We presented a comprehensive base security solution and had to pretend to source everything from "the West" just so as to wow these Macauley's children. This was going to cost millions and millions of dollars, for products that the country really didn't need.
Some of the products included items that could have easily been built locally. For instance, electrified concertina wires. Basically, two spirals of wire, one interior, which has a current going through it, and one exterior. Between them are plastic bits that keep the two wires apart. I convinced the boss to have this locally built, designed the specs and viola, we did it at 1/100th the cost. That's 1/100.
And I am not even an engineer.
Imagine the insanity going on in these countries. Just mad mad garbage. Now, you can deny and imagine all this doesn't happen in Pakistan, but that would just be being an ostrich really.
The scale of incompetence, ego, nepotism and corruption is incredible. Should we all remember PShamim at least? At least he was a PAF officer who had the guts to admit what he did. How many are not telling you the truth?
We all know how difficult the JFT was to start. But one of the greatest difficulties came from within the PAF and still continues today in the form of an F-16 mafia. Do I really need to explain all of this?
