Ginger Gardiner

Ginger Gardiner Senior Technical Editor

Triumph Aerospace Structures to design eVTOL airframe for Jaunt Air Mobility

World’s third largest aerostructures supplier will help develop a lightweight design for Uber’s latest partner per its reduced rotor operating speed aircraft (ROSA) technology.

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Aerospace

Airbus Albatross features flapping wings made from composites

Airbus demonstrates first in-flight, flapping wing-tips that could revolutionize aircraft wing and wing box design.

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Epoxies

Advancing multifunctional composite wings and fuselage structures

Flexible printed circuits and the Advanced Concepts for Aero‑Structures with Integrated Antennas and Sensors (ACASIAS) consortium.

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Molds/Tools

HP-RTM for serial production of cost-effective CFRP aerostructures

Merging automotive process and tooling with aerospace quality to meet increasing production rates.

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Plant Tour: STELIA Aerospace, Méaulte, France

Supplier of Airbus fuselage sections pushes boundaries of hybrid aerostructures production, assembly and thermoplastic composites.

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Carbon Fibers

WMG prototypes CFRP frame for Very Light Rail (VLR) demonstration vehicle

Braided thermoplastic composite frame enables lightweight, recyclability and high-volume manufacturing.

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Carbon Fibers

DARPA presents TFF program for low-cost composites for defense

Results reviewed at SAMPE 2019 show new materials and side-by-side comparisons of thermoset, thermoplastic, HP-RTM and press-forming, including PtFS molding cell.

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Carbon Fibers

Industrialized continuous fiber composite printing in Delft

CEAD offers large builds with speed, precision, low-cost extrusion and continuous fiber.

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Medical

Fusing waterjet, laser for efficiency in CFRP/CMC machining

Laser MicroJet technology offers high accuracy and speed without heat issues, burring or replacement of cutting tools.

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Innovating composites to open new markets

From machine tools to trainer jets, CompoTech develops new design and process solutions.

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Aerospace

Alpine Advanced Materials licenses Lockheed thermoplastic nanocomposite

Proven in military aerospace parts, the HX5 product targets metal replacement in single-aisle jetliners.

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Aerospace

SAE and NCAMP to develop aerospace material and process standards

The collaboration will develop global material and process specifications for advanced materials, including composites, in the aerospace and air transport industries.

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