If you think your airplane is being held together with duct tape, don't worry. You're actually looking at a commonly used and ...

Airplanes are one of the best examples of thoughtful engineering. Most of the things you find on an aircraft have a special purpose behind them, and there will rarely be a feature that has been added ...

A team of engineers has built and tested a new kind of airplane wing, assembled from hundreds of tiny identical pieces. The wing can change shape to control the plane’s flight, and could provide a ...

In 2021, Daher delivered thermoplastic composite wing ribs to Airbus UK in the context of the Airbus Wing of Tomorrow programme. Elementary parts of the ribs were assembled with fasteners and Daher ...

An eventual successor to current regional turboprops could feature a strut-braced, high-aspect-ratio composite wing with morphing leading and trailing edges, depending on the outcome of an ongoing ...