Composite Developments in Aircraft Structures — Part 4

What of the future of composites? Dr. L. J. Hart‐Smith of the McDonnell Douglas Corporation, in a Paper entitled “Designing with Fibrous Composites”, delivered in Brisbane in 1988, commented on the widespread belief that destiny required composites to replace all metal structures because the material is newer, so, ipso facto, aluminium lithium must replace both aluminium and composites because it is even newer.