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Old 15th Jul 2020, 18:30
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SansAnhedral
 
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Originally Posted by Hughes500
Sans,
Carbon fibre is not the utopia you think it is, when it let's go it really let's go and more worryingly with no warning. Have seen it on a very expensive carbon mountain bike. Yes I know it is not a blade but wow
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Never implied it was utopioan, but after 15 years of designing rotor blades, today I would never use metallic primary structure unless it was a design purely for cost (and not carrying humans).
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