[Gary Dillard]

We are using a similar material, scrap that was donated to us by Pratt & Whitney, COTS material made by Hexcel. It is 1 inch thick aluminum honeycomb with 18oz cloth face sheets. The raw material price that they paid was $1100 for a 4 x 7 sheet, which is what I'm using for our cost basis. The largest single component we are using is a 28 x 36 piece which prices out at about $275 - less than the $400 allowable.

I spoke with the engineers at Nida-Core (they are about an hour north of us) and they have a similar material; It is COTS - the core is stocked but laminated sheets are not normally stocked. They have about a 2 week turnaround to laminate it so it's well within the guidelines. They also said they have been bombarded with calls from FIRST teams.