AEROSPACE COATINGS

From ancient viking explorers to Columbus’s search for a new trade route to Asia and the United States’ manifest destiny, humans have always sought to explore the unknown. At the beginning of the 20th century, mankind created its most powerful exploratory tool yet: the airplane. Since the Wright brothers first flew in 1903, we’ve been captivated by flight, and went from first leaving the ground to landing on the surface of the moon in only 65 years. Today, the aerospace industry is among the largest manufacturing industries worldwide, realizing marvelous feats of engineering that would be nothing short of magic to people only a little more than a century ago.

Now, with a burgeoning privatized space industry and the rapid growth of air travel, the aerospace industry is bursting with potential and working tirelessly to develop the next generation of air and spacecraft. These new testaments to human ingenuity will operate under more strenuous conditions than ever before, flying higher, farther, longer, and faster, while also being safer, more efficient, and with novel capabilities. Achieving the industry’s ambitious goals requires advanced solutions capable of protecting aircraft while also improving their performance, and polyurea and polyurethane aerospace coatings are two materials technologies that can achieve both objectives simultaneously. For new aerospace vehicles exploring the next frontier across the solar system to previous and current generations of aircraft in need of upgrades or repairs, aerospace coatings are a robust solution for safer and higher perforation aerospace vehicles.