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Paul Lew has re-invented the wheel again.
In late 2001 Paul Lew, founder and president of Lew Corporation (Lew Composites), sold his controlling interest in Lew Corporation and in early 2002 he left Lew Corporation and formed Lew Aerospace, an advanced technology company which manufactures aerospace components for the US Government. Lew Aerospace, Inc. physical manufacturing facility is located in Las Vegas, Nevada. Lew Aerospace is a manufacturer of advanced composite components for US Department of Defense (DOD) as well as commercial customers in the bicycle, and motor sports market, using state-of-the-art CNC tooling as well as high-precision carbon composite tooling fabricated in house. Primary to their DOD customer is the Inventus™ family of scalable UAVs. Their 12,000 square foot facility employs 20 to 60 full-time employees (contract dependent) who undergo approximately 500 hours each of annual in-house training to maintain their high-level of aptitude in composite fabrication. CADD capabilities include seats to support Intergraph, AutoCAD, IGES Drawing, SolidWorks, 3D Studio, Metastream, STEP Drawing, Shape File Format, Scalable Vector Graphics Format, Drawing eXchange Format, ACIS, and Stereo Lithography. Lew Aerospace internally supports over 1000 hours of flight-testing and component testing annually as well as maintaining a technical staff capable of supporting it’s customer base at US Government Ranges in the CONUS.
To read more about Lew Aerospace visit their website at www.lewaerospace.com
Mid 2002, the Board of Directors of Lew Corporation decided to sell Lew Corporation to MacLean Quality Composites who teamed with Reynolds Composites to manufacture Lew Wheels under the Reynolds Composites name.
Beginning in 2004, while primarily focusing on Inventus™ UAV, Mr. Lew collaborated with Shimano to teach them a proprietary aerospace manufacturing process, and helped them to outfit a facility to manufacture the rims used in their carbon WH-7800, WH-7801 wheels. Mr. Lew’s relationship with Shimano continues today, and Shimano employs this technology in their own manufacturing facility, manufacturing carbon rims with a reputation for incredible strength and toughness.
Mr. Lew set the standard for the first decade of the 21st Century of wheel technology with his innovative molding of super-light, ultra-durable unidirectional graphite rims, winning Multiple Ironman, World Championships, Olympic Medals, and Tour De France Stages.
Now, Mr. Lew is re-setting the standard for the second decade of the 21st Century by designing and manufacturing a limited number of Advanced Boron-Carbon wheel sets utilizing a newly developed technology known as DEX-LCM™.
Paul Lew, our company’s founder and President, founded Lew Aerospace in 2002 to develop Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for the U.S. military. He also serves as Lew Aerospace’s Chief Engineer. Mr. Lew was deployed to the Middle East in 1983 and served as active duty USN aboard the USS Coronado and USS Thorn, DDG988. He has also served as program manager and chief engineer for Lew Aerospace for over 1000 hours of accumulated flight testing at Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama, White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, Ft. Bliss, El Paso, Texas, Bolling AFB, District of Columbia, and various Test Ranges in Nevada.
Prior to founding Lew Aerospace, Mr. Lew invented Lew Bicycle Wheels, which achieved a following among racing cyclists because of the wheel’s tremendously high strength, low weight and the meticulous attention to engineered performance inherent in its design. To this date, seven years after their introduction into the bicycle racing community no lighter wheel is available. Lew Wheels have raced and won numerous professional as well as amateur world championships, including, Olympic Medals, Ironman World Championships, and were instrumental in assisting cyclists achieve their best times ever and set multiple World Hour Records. Mr. Lew also invented the high-performance Humpy Bumper, a specialized, high-load and high-impact distribution and dissipation bumper for racecars in Winston/Busch/ARCA Cup Races.
Mr. Lew’s other accomplishments include developing General Electric Aircraft Engine prototype actuator rings, in-line skate wheels utilizing advanced composites, and the lightweight Fisher Space Pen used on-board the International Space Station.
He has also been awarded the Owens-Corning/Composite Institute Award for Excellence in Composite Design, the Amoco Petroleum Society of Plastics Industry Award of Excellence for Composite Design, and the Small Business Industry Appreciation Award from Nevada Governor Kenny Guinn. Mr. Lew holds several patents related to mechanical and aerodynamic design including bicycle wheel patents:
CLICK HERE TO SEE THE BICYCLE WHEEL PATENT
Mr. Lew studied mechanical engineering and naval architecture at the United States Naval Academy as a member of the Class of 1985, before earning a Bachelor’s of Science in Environmental Design (i.e., designing and engineering structures to withstand environmental stresses) and the professional degree of Bachelors of Architecture from Ball State University in 1989.
Mr. Lew has over 17 years experience in advanced product design, advanced composite materials and manufacturing processes. Besides being Lew Aerospace’s President, he remains our Chief Engineer and continues to lead our company with design and manufacturing innovations involving our manufacturing processes and our advanced composite materials products, thus ensuring our demanding customers’ expectations are not just met, but are exceeded.
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