Material chosen over advanced alloys as Boeing aims to finalise business plan by early 2004 Boeing's planned 7E7 will use composites for the majority of the airframe, including the wing and fuselage, ...

Lufthansa Technik (LHT) is developing a mobile, automated repair system for primary composite airframe structures that could be ready within five years. While repair processes exist for secondary ...

What happens when composite-heavy aircraft like A350 and B787 reach the end of their lives, and why recycling them isn’t so ...

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 ...

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 ...

More and more aircraft are rolling off the production line with a primarily composite structure. Are these harder to repair than traditional aluminum?

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

From the earliest days of aviation, aircraft structures were made of metal. Gradually, aluminum emerged as the preferred option for primary, secondary and tertiary structures because of its ...