The 787's carbon fiber fuselage changed aviation. The problems it introduced are still being resolved.

A phenomenon known as barely visible impact damage makes composite aircraft like the A350 much more difficult to repair after ...

Leonardo is nearing the end of the design phase for a pair of composite fuselage demonstrators for a future aircraft under the Green Regional Aircraft workstream of the EU’s Clean Sky 2 programme. The ...

Weight and cost reduction in the manufacturing processes and health monitoring of an aircraft fuselage are key to the competitiveness of Europe’s regional aircraft industry. Clean Sky’s Composite ...

The transition of the T‑7A Red Hawk into production, validated through Milestone C, confirms the industrial maturity of the ...

Bombardier will move production tooling for the all-composite Learjet 85 business jet to its Queretaro, Mexico, plant this month following completion of a test fuselage to validate the manufacturing ...

Horizon Aircraft, an advanced aerospace engineering company, has partnered with RAMPF Composite Solutions, a leading composite manufacturing company, to manufacture the fuselage of its upcoming hybrid ...

Airbus SA has announced that it will stop production of the A380 super jumbo aircraft in 2021, a move that will impact some in-house composites production as the company puts more focus on smaller ...

Italian aerospace giant Leonardo is the latest addition to the impressive list of collaborators for the development of the VX4. Its expertise in composite aerostructures will be used to take this ...

The fuselage of the jetliner involved in a collision on a Tokyo runway was made from carbon-composite fibers, and the incident is renewing concern about the challenges of putting out fires involving ...

Russia's next-generation narrowbody airliner, the MS-21, will have a composite wing and empennage married to a fuselage constructed from advanced alloys such as aluminium lithium. The plans for the ...

As the commercial aerospace sector prepares for a new round of major program launches, the question of where and how composites will be applied weighs heavily on the supply chain. CompositesWorld ...