CASE HISTORY Aerospace Market AWACS Radome with S-2 Glass® Yarn Boeing 707-E3 AWACS using a composite radome reinforced with S-2 Glass yarns Boeing AWACS Radome Lightweight fabric in epoxy prepreg BGF Industries (USA) Hexcel Composites (USA) The Boeing Company (USA) Glass Fiber Yarns

AWACS Radome with S-2 Glass® Yarn “Without S-2 Glass fiber the Features AWACS (Airborne Warning Low dielectric constant and loss and Control System) could tangent from 1 MHz to over 10 GHz never have been built. ” The speaker is Cal B. Rogers, manufacturing and research analyst for the Boeing Company. The topic is the AWACS radome, the cover for the radar systems on the 707-E3, a specially modified Boeing 707-320B in service since 1977. The 767-E with a rotating radome or “rotodome,” housing the same lookdown radar antenna as well as communications antennae, was introduced in 1998. S-2 Glass...