Scaling crucial to integrated product development of composite aerospace structures. Part 1

I dedicate this manuscript to the memory of Ernest F. Dost, who passed away on 18 September 1995. He had numerous achievements prior to his tragic death at the young age of 34. In less than a decade, he helped solve many difficult problems supporting composite structural design, manufacturing and maintenance as an aeronautics engineer at Boeing. Ernie had a critical role on the integrated product development team that performed the work described in both parts of this article. Part 2 will highlight Ernie's important contributions to the field of composite impact, as related to structural damage tolerance.