Advanced composite materials in aircraft applications / Mohd. Nizam Mohd. Zain and Mohd. Nazirudin Tahir

The exciting thing about composites is that an ordinary person can make things that they have never been able to make before, such as bathtubs, a boat, or a motorcycle. Race car bodies, canoes, airplanes, model aircraft, jet skis, boats, sculpture, as well as traditional industrial molding and model making have taken on a new dimension as fiberglass becomes less of a mystery, easier to use, and easier to buy. The materials that are used are easiest to understand when you think about something like a boat. A boat is hard, it doesn't bend, and it certainly doesn't take in water. Most people think of a boat as being made of "fiberglass."