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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you've struggled to take weight out of your designs without sacrificing strength, you could likely learn a thing or two from the engineers who created the world's biggest commercial airliner, the ...