Aerospace

Carbon Fibers

Archer Aviation plans to work with Hexcel to advance eVTOL production capabilities

Under the proposed relationship, Hexcel will supply its high-performance carbon fiber prepreg material for the production aircraft.

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Lilium begins eVTOL demonstrator flight testing in Spain

Lilium Jet demonstrator, dubbed Phoenix 2, begins the next phase of flight testing at Spain’s ATLAS Flight Test Center. A third demonstrator will be introduced in summer 2022.

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Aerospace

Hexcel carbon fiber selected for Artemis 9 mission booster production

Lightweight composite design for BOLE boosters enable increased performance for NASA’s future missions to the moon and Mars.

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Aerospace

Clean Aviation 2021 Highlights Report builds momentum for climate-neutral aviation

Latest progress, participants and synergies for the MFFD, UltraFan engine, RACER helicopter, Next-Gen Civil Tilt Rotor and other projects under the Clean Sky 2 Joint Undertaking are highlighted.

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ZeroAvia, ZEV Station gear up hydrogen refueling ecosystem at California airports

The two California-based companies have agreed to launch a trial project as powertrain developer ZeroAvia is preparing for first test flights with its Dornier 228 testbed aircraft. 

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Thermoplastics

DLR Augsburg integrates sixth frame to upper half fuselage test shell for MFFD

Clean Sky 2 thermoplastic composite demonstrator advances toward full assembly.

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Aerospace

DLR Institute of Structures and Design releases video on TB-Rumpf welded thermoplastic composites

Autoclave-free consolidation and resistance welding validated for future aircraft thermoplastic composite fuselage.

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Safran joins the ThermoPlastic composites Research Center

The aerospace group joins as part of the ongoing initiative to decarbonize aviation. Safran believes thermoplastic technology development acceleration is a key target to meet this goal.

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Australian hypersonic UAV project awarded $2.95 million federal funding

The DART CMP will be a hydrogen-powered, reusable, hypersonic unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) using newly developed ceramic matrix composites (CMC).

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Thermoplastics

Stratasys collaborates with Lockheed to qualify composite materials for space, aviation end-use parts

Report made public by Metropolitan State University of Denver delivers qualification data for Antero 840CN03 for additively manufactured end-use parts requiring high thermal and chemical resistance, and ESD properties.

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