Posts Categorized: Project Updates

Presenting the Hybrid High-Performance Wheel

Exciting news – Formtech Composites and BBS Motorsport ready to present the latest protoype of their hybrid high-performance wheel to the market! After years of engineering and testing the developing partners (BBS Motorsport and Formtech Composites) are going to present their latest prototype of an hybrid high-performance wheel.

Formtech Composites and Veritas complete the Challenge

The Challenege: Build a show car for the Salon Prive at London’s exclusive Hurlingham Club in under 5 weeks! From the first meeting in the middle of June (2009), Veritas and Formtech Composites took on the challlenge to work together to build the Veritas RSIII in less than 5 weeks from start to finish.

Zephyr Records Ratified by the FAI

Further to our news post on QinetiQ’s Zephyr HALE UAV, we are pleased to announce that the Zephyr flight records have been ratified by the FAI: Absolute duration record Unmanned – The longest flying UAV in the world (beating Global Hawk’s record by a factor of 11) at 336 hours 22 minutes 8 seconds Class… Read more »

Formtech is Proud to be part of QinetiQ’s Zephyr HALE UAV Longest Un-Manned Flight Record

Formtech Composites’ capability to offer the complete solution from design brief to production has taken a step into the UAV sector of aerospace with manufacturing support on the QinetiQ Zephyr project. This Unmanned Aerial Vehicle which operates within the HALE (High Altitude, Long Endurance) sector has successfully been launched at the US Army Yuma Proving… Read more »

FV10 – Super Aguri Reborn

Formtech Composites worked with Cars International and Dash-CAE to modify the Super Aguri SA06 chassis from the 2006 season into their current guise as the FV10: reborn! The FV10 ran this week in Southern Spain Virgin Racing’s Test/reserve drivers Luiz Razia and Andy Soucek racked up over 350 laps in temperatures of 38C.