Lamborghini’s Advanced Composite Structures Laboratory is one of the only places outside of Boeing that can simulate lightning strikes, hail, birdstrikes, and engine failures, Automobile Magazine reports.
The lab is under the careful tutelage of Dr. Paolo Feraboli.
“I always wanted to build and design fighter jets,” he told Automobile Magazine. “I am not an engineer. I am a carbon-fiber designer.”
Under his direction, a five-person team tests, engineers, and creates “works of carbon-fiber art,” from the Lamborghini Sesto Elemento to more than 1,000 parts for Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner.(…)
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