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

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

GKN Aerospace announced that it has delivered the first FTE for Airbus’ ”Wing of tomorrow” research programme from its global technology centre (GTC) in Bristol. This builds upon the successful ...

Comac has completed static and damage tolerance tests for a composite wing box project. The tests verified that the structural design and strength verifications met Chinese airworthiness standards, ...

Russian airframer Irkut has completed strength testing of the MC-21 wingbox, constructed from domestic composites, demonstrating that its performance corresponds to analytical predictions. Irkut ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The cost and weight-saving objectives of aircraft/engine OEMs will drive the application of composites in the aerospace industry. Aircraft safety will be one of the overriding ...

Mitsubishi Aircraft will build aluminum wing boxes for its MRJ regional jet, backing away from the ambitious plan to use composites while announcing a three-month delay to the program. Composite would ...

BROUGHTON, Wales — Like a cartoon space alien with a dome-like skull, an Airbus Beluga transport plane arriving from Madrid drops from the sky above this village 200 miles northwest of London and ...

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 ...

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.