Gulfport, MS
prototype development
The Boeing Co. and the Army launched a program in 2000 to reduce
the weight and labor cost for the Apache helicopter fuselage. Gulfport's
Seemann Composites Inc. developed the tooling and process to resin
infuse a one-piece, stitched carbon fiber fuselage skin with all structural
bulkheads. As a result of this work, SCI received Boeing Phantom
Works supplier innovator of the year award in 2002.