Boeing and Airbus has been building aluminium aircraft for decades when they switched to composite designs for their respective 787 and A350 programmes. Whether that material change can be replicated ...

Boeing may build an all-composite airframe as a concept demonstrator for next-generation passenger and cargo aircraft. Boeing Phantom Works president Darryl Davis says an airframe developed using the ...

How To Make Composites Even Lighter is published in Aviation Daily, an Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN) Market ...

Just one day after a major aviation player told the Seattle Times that Boeing’s proposed new 797 airplane might have a metal rather than a carbon composite fuselage, a top executive at the jetmaker ...

Dufour Aerospace is happy to announce that Connova AG has been selected as the main supplier for the composite airframe of the uncrewed tilt-wing aircraft Aero2. The major sub-assemblies of the ...

GKN Aerospace has successfully concluded a composite manufacturing and assembly research programme using of out of autoclave (OOA) processes and materials and PI shaped woven preforms. These ...

A new NASA research project seeks a dramatic 400-600% improvement in manufacturing rates for composite airframe structures for the next U.S.-built single-aisle commercial aircraft. The Hi-Rate ...

ROCHESTER, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Albany International Corp. (NYSE: AIN) announced today that its subsidiary Albany Engineered Composites (AEC) reached agreement with Boeing to renew and expand its ...

Aircraft are getting lighter as composite materials replace metal in their components and airframe. Commercial aircraft component manufacturer OrbitalATK is using RFID to improve process efficiency ...

Aerospace engineers face constant trade-offs between weight and manufacturability. With HyperX® and HyperXpert® from Collier Aerospace, they can optimise lighter, more cost-effective composite ...