Plastic fuselage C-130 flies

A Lockheed Martin/ 3M team has test flown a C-130 Hercules with about 150m2 (1,600ft2) of the fuselage forward of the wing treated with a plastic film, rather than paint. The two companies are developing appliqué technologies in a joint programme with the US Department of Commerce and have already ...

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