Posts Tagged ‘composites’

Titanium Leading Edge

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

This is a blade (not sure that’s the right terminology) from inside a GE90 engine.

It’s totally real except the silver part is paint instead of titanium, which is what it has when it’s actually in an engine. As I understand it, the titanium leading edge protects the composite materials that make up the rest of the blade from impacts.

Mostly, though, I just think “titanium leading edge” would make a good name for a band. (Would be funny to combine with Wikipedia names your band.)