The article highlights a troubled history of all-composite aircraft development, citing examples like the Beech Starship and Boeing 787, which faced significant challenges related to missed weight ...

Deutsche Aircraft and Hexcel have announced the signing of an industrial partnership and a long-term supply agreement. Under ...

Boeing and Airbus has been building aluminium aircraft for decades when they switched to composite designs for their respective 787 and A350 programmes. Whether that material change can be replicated ...

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 ...

Deutsche Aircraft and Hexcel Corporation (NYSE:HXL) today jointly announced the signing of a long-term industrial partnership and supply agreement focused on advanced composite solutions for the ...

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 ...

ROCHESTER, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Albany International Corp. (NYSE: AIN) announced today that its subsidiary Albany Engineered Composites (AEC) reached agreement with Boeing to renew and expand its ...

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 ...

Dufour Aerospace is happy to announce that Connova AG has been selected as the main supplier for the composite airframe of the uncrewed tilt-wing aircraft Aero2. The major sub-assemblies of the ...

With the growing demand for resilient, efficient, and low carbon infrastructure, increasing attention has been directed toward novel materials and ...

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