The weight savings, strength advantages and design qualities that are achievable with composite materials require substantial craft. Simple skills for simple layups are trivial, but mastery of the art requires disciplined process.
It's great to see college students working on this project (I assume they are college students). And composite manufacturing is one of my interests! When I was in school in the mid 1990s I designed and fabricated a fairing for a award winning human powered vehicle. I designed the shape and had two molds machined from high density foam. We did a wet layup since we couldn't afford prepregs.
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It's great to see college students working on this project (I assume they are college students). And composite manufacturing is one of my interests! When I was in school in the mid 1990s I designed and fabricated a fairing for a award winning human powered vehicle. I designed the shape and had two molds machined from high density foam. We did a wet layup since we couldn't afford prepregs.