Blackhawk helicopter high-performance magnesium components

Brief reference to a magazine article Tom has about Blackhawk magnesium use. Tied to US government's recurring multi-million-dollar low-cost-magnesium initiatives, foreshadowing the next lecture's Adam Powell guest talk. ## Figures referenced (not cases)

It does come into play in some things like the Blackhawk helicopter — here's an old article about the Blackhawk and the use of high-performance magnesium. The US government is constantly spending tens of millions of dollars every year to try to develop a low-cost magnesium market, saying, we can build lightweight automobiles. You can't roll sheet very easily, and automobiles are made out of sheet. You can make castings, but I have yet to figure out why they do all this. Tomorrow when Adam Powell comes in, he'll tell you that one of the first things they did with his technology was to make magnesium, because they could get several million dollars from the US government to make low-cost magnesium.