An additional consideration ...
FV can and is "tailored" with the use of rigid/semirigid IML tools thereby controlling the infusible volume... the volume can be controlled modified with a vacumm sealing chambers on removable "hard" stops. You are only limited by budget and imagination.
robert
Kevin
look at http://www.afcsat.com/
you need to identify the acceptable transmission loss (db at the required frequency range). You will most likely need to do some impendance matching using AQII fabric in a CE matrix. ( I have not had seen stiffness loss only weight gain!) same old...
Andy
I spent 5 years in Wessling starting with the 328JET conversion and then laying out the 728/928/528 empennage.
Dornier took DTA "crack propagation" very seriously with regards to ClI/II laminates. I suspect that the restiction on splash plate coverings was due to an ability to inspect for...