At 12:46 PM 11/20/94, Guy Tremblay wrote:
>>In the ATCC collection of filamentous fungi catalogue, more precisely in
the Strains
>with Special Applications Section there is an application that is bugging
me. This is
>the application:
>>Aircraft components
> testing
> Aspergillus flavus
> " niger
> " ustus
> " versicolor
> Chaetomium globosum
> Fusarium monoliform
>etc...
>>What is this about? Are these fungi that like to take the plane (Hey, I met
Rusty the
>fungi in a 747 back from Jakarta)? Or are they simply organisms used for
airplanes
>testing? If so, what for exactly?
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Guy:
The ATCC info was just recently declassified by the USAF. The fungi in
question have sturdy cell walls and produce aerial hyphae which makes them
ideal compounds for use in the stealth bomber technology. The USAF is now
working with some basidiomycetes to be used in parachutes. SciFI comes to
life!
>>>>>>
