More weight is automatically seen as a negative in aviation, but is that always really the case or can it actually be ...

A look into the materials used for the wings and fuselage of Boeing's newest long-range, twin-engine jetliner.

The British Plastics Federation (BFP) and the Worshipful Company of Horners have awarded the 2013 Horners Award for Plastics Innovation and Design to GKN Aerospace for its "highly innovative" Airbus ...

The company is also evolving its plans for drag-efficient natural laminar flow wings as part of the recently extended Clean Sky 2 EU research consortium. Both wing concepts should be ready for test ...

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 ...

Chinese researchers flew a fixed-wing drone with bamboo-based composite wings, showcasing a greener aircraft material. The drone is over 20 per cent lighter ...

The company announced the selection of its Everett, Wash., site as the location for a new composite wing center for the 777X program. Boeing evaluated criteria that were designed to find the wing ...

Embraer is working to complete the fuselage and empennage of a remotely piloted technology demonstration platform following successful initial fatigue tests of the aircraft’s composite wing. The wing ...

MIT and NASA researchers have developed a morphing airplane wing that goes back to the future: The entire wing bends and twists, much as the Wright brothers' Flyer 1 did more than a century ago.