To convince wary airline executives that carbon-fiber body material was strong, Boeing sales teams carried samples and hammers, letting airline executives whack the composite with all their might.
Boeing's 787 Dreamliner combines a 50 percent carbon-composite structure with advanced engines, aerodynamics and other improvements to save one-fifth of its fuel at no extra cost.
As the team reports in a forthcoming issue of Langmuir, a journal devoted to the study of colloids, the new technique allows them to build composite materials with custom-designed features as tiny as the diameter of a human hair.
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Next is the camera's Multiple Exposure mode where users can combine up to nine individual images into a single composite image, with no need for later computer post-processing.
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The company said it would be focussing on the design and manufacturing processes needed to produce a next generation composite wing, with the emphasis on reducing weight and aerodynamic drag.
The lightweight Dreamliner, with a composite-plastic fuselage, is about three years behind schedule.
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It's smokin' (with an integrated wood-fire smoking drawer), rockin' (with a composite-stone baking surface) and it brings the heat: 30, 000 BTUs' worth.
Maybe you just hit on some thing and we can just do away with the composite and just raise taxes when employment goes down.
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As Thaksin's critics cheered that the petition had been accepted, the stock market suffered, with the composite index falling nearly 2% in afternoon trading.
The U.S. also fell out of first place in the overall 2006-2007 World Competitiveness rankings and now holds sixth place, with a composite score of 5.61 out of a possible 7.
"How the sound reflects off this reflecting surface with this composite object on it - which is pretty big and has a cloaking shell on it - really reflects... just like a flat surface does, " Dr Cummer said.
Far from preparing for the twenty-first century, much of the Arab and Muslim world appears to have difficulty in coming to terms with the nineteenth century, with its composite legacy of secularization, democracy, laissez faire economics, transnational industrial and commercial linkages, social change, and intellectual questioning.
Annual rates furthered their decline in April, with the 20-city composite accelerating its fall to -4% over April 2010, compared with a decline of 3.8% last month over its reading a year ago.
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There is minor support for the NYSE Composite at 9, 179 with the 20-week EMA at 8, 914.
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But this is the first commercial airplane to be made with 50 percent composite materials.
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On Thursday, Chinese stocks reversed a losing trend, and on Friday they took off, with the Shanghai Composite skyrocketing 3.7% that day.
Samsung Electronics' stock has not enriched executives much: It has fallen by 45% in dollar terms (35% in won) in the past 12 months, declining in step with the Korean Composite Index (see The Korea discount).
That compares with the 2.66% yield of the Barclays Global Treasury Universal index, a composite of treasury markets across the world with heavier weightings for larger countries.
The Philippines was another market to see heavy falls on Monday, with the Philippines PSE Composite falling 3.7% to 6, 763.38.
But even with rose-diamond composite augmented optics, we have to admit that once cutting-edge graphics are now past their prime.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index was down 0.5%, while the Shanghai Composite Index was fighting the trend with a 0.1% gain.
The firm's flagship Oculus fund closed the year up 18% net of fees, with the slightly smaller Composite International fund finishing just behind it at 15.6%.
The design decision I appreciate most is that the back of the display and bottom of the XPS 12 are both lined with a carbon fiber composite.
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Stainless steel fittings would be replaced with a more hygienic composite material, ergonomic and vandal-resistant dryers would be installed, as would better lighting, hooks for bags and coats and easy-to-use locks.
Asian exchanges also fell, with China's Shanghai Composite ending down 0.6% and Japan's Nikkei Stock Average closing 0.8% lower.
On Tuesday, the Case-Shiller indexes, which Blitzer chairs, revealed the fastest year-over-year growth since mid-2006, with the 10-city composite rising 5.5%.
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More rules about bat performance resulted in more workarounds mainly the widespread use of non-aluminum, composite bats that got "springier" with more use after passing initial testing.
With the 20-city composite index falling below its April 2009 low, 12 of the cities surveyed for the index marked new index lows in the current housing cycle.
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Asian stocks were mostly higher, with China's Shanghai Composite surging 3.1% to a seven-month high after a regulator said the country will grant foreigners greater access to its stock markets.
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