Accelerated Insertion of Materials

Novel Materials improve Existing Products.

An exemplary client success story of Accelerated Insertion of Materials is QuesTek and Navy carrier aircraft landing gear and tail hooks. Under a low $7 figure contract with the Navy, QuesTek designed, produced, qualified, and placed the certified products, made of QuesTek’s proprietary Ferrium®M54 alloy, into flight operations on the Navy’s T-45 trainer aircraft in 1/3 of the time of a typical design-to-flight cycle. The hardness and toughness of the new gear enabled 20% more landings on the platform, saving $ Millions in maintenance costs, preventing numerous accidents and loss of aircraft (a T-45 costs $17.2M each), not to mention young aviators (priceless?).