Early Structural Adhesive Bonding in Metallic Aircraft Structures

Early Structural Adhesive Bonding in Metallic Aircraft Structures 

Both towards the end of and immediately following the Second World War, wooden structures in military, passenger and freighter aircraft were slowly replaced by metals more recently composites have begun to replace the metallic structures. This meant that individual components and structures were required to carry higher loads, due to more demanding aircraft performances, and this, in its turn, demanded significantly improved adhesive systems. 

The first of this new generation of structural adhesives, developed in the UK by Norman de Bruyne and George Newell of Aero Research Limited, Duxford, Cambridge, was Redux (/fesearch at Durford), which was based on a formulated P/F resin and was the first synthetie adhesive for bonding structural components construeted from composite and metaUie materials. 

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