Search Results

The advantages of building aircraft structures with composites, compared to metal, include light weight, high specific strength, superior fatigue properties, damage tolerance and the absence of corrosion.

Technologies tested in the Filton wind tunnel — many inspired by biomimicry — will include gust sensors, pop-up spoilers and multifunctional trailing edges.

Initial function checks were conducted at the Airbus Helicopter facility in Marignane, France, signaling the next step for the composite rotorcraft demonstrator and its highly collaborative teams.

The software platform will enable Airbus to more easily manage material workflow from one database across divisions.

Turkish Aerospace Industries has signed a collaborative agreement with Airbus for research and development in secondary structures for Airbus aircraft programs.

More efficient fuel burn, a carbon fiber fuselage and wings and a quiet cabin take A350 orders well over 900. 

Bombardier exits the commercial aircraft manufacturing business. Airbus owns 75% of the A220 program; Government of Québec owns 25%.

Coming less than two months after the start of assembly of the rear and center fuselages, this marks another significant production step for the A321XLR.

GKN Aerospace has spent the last five years developing materials strategies and resin transfer molding (RTM) for an aircraft trailing edge wing spar for the Airbus Wing of Tomorrow program.

The company reports 383 new orders and 566 deliveries in 2020 across all market segments.

SGL Carbon’s glass fiber noncrimp fabrics enable the composite rotor blades for the 5 blade Airbus H145 rotor configuration.