“I believe carbon fiber construction is a completely more advanced technology, and not something ordinarily achieved in your garage.”
I have built an MCR01 in my garage which is a carbon aircraft. The construction included a lot of trimming and gluing of pre manufactured carbon parts, but also some limited wet lay. The process is very similar to other composite construction from a wet lay perspective, but the resins and the carbon itself are more expensive. I know of other carbon aircraft which have been repaired very cheaply and quickly, after a considerable delay deciding exactly what the repair should consist of.
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