Originally Posted by
Grambo
Last time I checked Ti was the material of choice for high performance aircraft (especially military) but it is impracticle to manufacture an entire plane out of Ti (cost prohibitive / Al better suited for certain parts). By the way, how many custom frame builders specialize in Al frames???? CF - yes, Steel - yes, Ti - yes .... Al ......hmmmmm ...... I wonder why?
I found this to be interesting:
http://www.boeing.com/commercial/787...gramfacts.html
IMHO custom framebuilders simply go where the money is. Most people that want custom psychologically NEED to spend a lot of money on themselves. These buyers cannot justify the high labor costs of custom Al when the OEM costs of high quality, mass-produced Al frames out of Asia is <$50.