Touchstone Advanced Composites is supporting Northrop Grumman's YFQ-48A Talon Blue Collaborative Combat Aircraft programme by supplying advanced composite tooling materials, specifically CFOAM carbon foam derived from bituminous coal.
Touchstone Advanced Composites is supporting Northrop Grumman's YFQ-48A Talon Blue Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) programme by supplying advanced composite tooling materials.
The company supplies CFOAM carbon foam tooling derived from bituminous coal, which offers high thermal stability for composite manufacturing. The Talon Blue is a modular autonomous CCA platform. The use of CFOAM enables faster design iteration for the programme.
Source: Touchstone / aerospacemanufacturinganddesign.com
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