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• Nickel-based superalloys and music (Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire, for starters) were best in the 1930s. Inconel and Hastelloy were invented in that decade, along with Scotch tape, the car...
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Nickel-based superalloys and music (Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire, for starters) were best in the 1930s. Inconel and Hastelloy were invented in that decade, along with Scotch tape, the car radio, and instant coffee. When FDR was president and the Second World War was set to occur, the cutting-edge high temperature materials were more or less the same as the ones popular now. Now that’s kind of stupid, because it was before the DC 2 was commercialized, and now in hypersonics and sixth generation aircraft, we are stuck with the same materials. Time to ditch the 100-year-old materials, or perhaps make some money with a quick visit to “Antiques Roadshow.” I hope that your antique nickel superalloys surprise your neighbors.
UK-based firm Alloyed was trying to find an alloy that could be used at