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Composite Technology, Inc.
Worldwide Rotor Blade and Composite ServicesPress Release |
Extracted From Redstone Rocket, March 2000
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AMCOM has awarded a $3.4 million contract for the repair of AH-64 main rotor blades with spar disbonds to Composite Technology, Inc. (CTI) of Grand Prairie, Texas.
Due to this defect, AH-64 main rotor blades' service life limit averages only 800 hours. CTI is therefore returning to service main rotor blades that are currently considered scrapped for a quarter of the cost of a new replacement blade. Some 138 blades have been received at CTI facility and the first delivery of repaired blades to operational squadrons will begin in June.
The scope of the repair…includes Depot Maintenance Work Repair and spar disbond repair. The latter, developed by CTI and approved by AMCIM engineering in 1998, consists of a carbon fiber patch, which is bonded over the spar bondlines….
CTI has developed other innovative repairs, all approved by AMCOM engineering, for the Apache aircraft. One is a supplemental abrasion strip for AH-64 tail rotor blades, which prevents damage to the leading edge area of the blade and allows the blade to reach its full service life limit.
The other is a repair, which eliminates charring, of the heat damaged inner panels of AH-64 engine nacelles.
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