Latest Boeing Innovation Video: High-speed test lab
Have a need for speed? Boeing is partnering with the Lotus F1 Team to challenge physics and put speed to the test.
This is the latest video in Boeing's Innovation video series. See all of the videos at buildsomethingbetter.com.
Boeing recently launched the latest video - High Speed Test Lab - in its Innovation series highlighting the company's ingenuity and passion for developing innovations that help solve difficult, real-world problems.
Advancing an emerging technique called additive manufacturing, Boeing and Lotus have figured out a way to take recycled carbon fiber from Boeing production and integrate it into the material so the fibers spread in all different directions. "High-speed test lab" features Brett Lyons, a material and process engineer for Boeing Research & Technology, who explains how Boeing researchers are working with the Lotus F1 racing car team in Oxfordshire, UK, to rapidly develop and test high-performance composite parts.