The Airbus A350 XWB, composed of more than 50 percent carbon composites, took off on its successful maiden flight last week. A precise and smooth takeoff and landing over Paris's Toulouse-Blaganc ...

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho, June 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Continuous Composites (CCI), a leader in advanced composite manufacturing, has been awarded a U.S. Army Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) ...

GE Aerospace’s carbon fiber composites, first introduced on the GE90 in 1995, now underpin the case and fan blade design of ...

NASA's X-29 tested forward-swept wings and digital fly-by-wire control, advancing unstable aircraft design and high-angle flight research.

Infinite Composites (IC) reported the successful use of its proprietary Infinite Composite Pressure Vessel (iCPV) technology on 2 operational satellites currently in orbit. This represents the 1 st ...

Envelope expansion will begin a gradual push of the supersonic aircraft’s height and speed capabilities, working toward Mach ...

Scaled Composites announces the rollout and first flight of its most recent project, experimental aircraft Model 401. Scaled worked with a proprietary customer to build two vehicles to demonstrate ...

The Model 437 test pilot reported that the aircraft’s flying and handling qualities were good on the first flight. Credit: Scaled Composites The latest in a long line of experimental Scaled Composites ...

Think back to your last 10 flights. Chances are, on 8 out of those 10 commercial flights, at least one crucial component of your aircraft was built by Greene Tweed. That’s right – Greene Tweed’s ...

Spirit AeroSystems’ composite-manufacturing programmes continue to weigh on the company amid escalating costs, lagging production rates and a longer-than-anticipated composite-material “learning curve ...

For decades, commercial aircraft were built primarily with aluminum. From early jetliners like the Boeing 707 to modern aircraft such as the Boeing 777, aluminum dominated airframe construction due to ...