700 Hybrid tail boom

[Lota Fun R]

A couple of questions:

What is used to bond the two materials?

Is it lighter than aluminum only or carbon only?

Personally I would like to see it larger OD tubing and just use thinner wall, that will be more rigid.

[layinitdown]

I am pretty sure it is just a carbon wrap around a aluminum boom but I could be wrong,, kind of like monokote or something,,

[seanh]

Yep, CF over Al. Very strong, little flex. In a crash situation you don't worry about the splintering in all CF boom and no worries about dinging or bending as in aluminum.

[jeffk]

Easton uses the same method to make the competition arrows I use. They're called ACC (Aluminum Carbon Composite) and are extremely strong and durable. They're also a bit more than other arrows (one arrow is 12 bucks - 3 times what an aluminum only arrow costs) so I wonder if the 700 tailbooms will be a lot more.

According the the 700 interview Finless did with Andy Yu, the 600 tailbooms are also going to be offered in composite / hybrid.