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Why not a titanium body ?

Started Sep 11, 2020 | Discussions thread
Oiche Senior Member • Posts: 2,045
Re: Why not a titanium body ?
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ogl wrote:

The Squirrel Mafia wrote:

It would probably be too expensive to make. Titanium ain't cheap.

3-6 USD for 1 kg. aluminium is 1.7 USD for 1 kg.

The workable manufacturing costs of Ti is exponentially more than Al.

The raw material cost is insignificant in comparison.

Might be cheaper to cast unobtainium with encrusted diamonds with a kryptonite atmosphere!

None of you guys engineers? Used to be a few Boeing engineers on this forum maybe well past pension age 😁

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