"We're opening the valve for the trickle-down effect, for aerospace materials filtering into the mass boating market."

The agency has played a vital role in the development of technologies that proved to have important commercial as well as military applications, including advanced computers and aerospace materials.

The material of these reeds is a composite of aerospace materials designed to duplicate the way nature constructs cane reed.

In the six years that Textron has been perfecting its loom technique, other suppliers of advanced aerospace material have also adopted the method.

But he said the invention could also be helpful in research on new kinds of glass for optical fibers and high-strength aerospace materials.

Edwardian period The first aerospace materials were those long-established and often naturally occurring materials used to construct the first aircraft.

The next stage in the development of aerospace materials was to adopt newly developed materials, such as Duralumin the first age hardening aluminium alloy.

Many uses of aerospace materials for sporting goods have been as the result of a 'peace dividend'.

Can-Am cars were among the first race cars to sport wings, effective turbocharging, ground-effect aerodynamics, and aerospace materials like titanium.

The team began a series of experiments with new aerospace materials that led to improved performance.