Originally Posted by Stucky

I get SO tired of hearing this in every thread about carbon. Airplane structural components are quite different than bicycles. The plane components are much thicker, and have stiffening structures molded-in, or are built over a skeleton of another material for strength and stiffness. It's much different than a bicycle, which is made of just a few layers of thin carbon, and which has no stiffening structures/skeletons.

The bicycle is supporting 10 times it's weight, and subject to impacts daily, which essentially multiply that weight many times over. The plane isn't.