Part of project Orcelle Horizon, the composites-intensive, 560-square-meter structure will undergo ground-based testing ...

A composite wing giant is born. With the decision to build the carbon fiber wings for the 777X in Everett, Wash., Boeing is joining a short list of big composite wing manufacturers and establishing ...

As an emerging field that is supported by the country, the LX-1 drone is tasked with exploring new logistics routes. Faced ...

That efficiency largely comes from the wings that will be fabricated from a super light and strong carbon fiber composite material. At a groundbreaking ceremony, Boeing chief executive officer Ray ...

After my post yesterday on the carbon-fiber wings on Boeing’s new 787 jet, reader Craig Steffen pinged to alert me to a mistake I made. He points out that while the 787 is certainly an ambitious ...

The B-2 Spirit is approximately 80% composite, mostly carbon fiber. Some of the structural framework internal to the B-2, especially where the wing blends into the fuselage and the largest fuel ...

Precisely placing layer upon layer of carbon-fiber strips infused with epoxy resin, one of these so-called Automated Fiber Placement (AFP) machines builds up the 777X’s composite wing skin ...

The Dreamliner is the world’s first airliner built primarily from carbon fiber composites, offering unmatched fuel efficiency ...

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have developed an innovative new ...

Think of these machines as 30-foot-tall, 3-D printers, each costing tens of millions of ...

The fuselage and wings of the crashed Japan Airlines Airbus A350 were made using a carbon-composite material that's likely to receive renewed attention in the aftermath of Tuesday's fiery accident.

Get rid of composite wings and diffusers; they do not add anything to safety. ... The basic woven-resin composite recipe established by carbon fiber has given way to innovations with other threads.