Fleet Readiness Center East at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point is set to become one of only two sites in the world to use laser technology to strengthen aircraft structural components. The ...

Lightweight, strong, and flexible, composite materials are the wave of the future.

After obtaining the China’s large aircraft body supplier qualification in 2009, Xizi Aviation, Zhejiang’s first aviation parts manufacturing base began to enter operational materiality and recently ...

CTC GmbH – An Airbus Company has won a JEC Composites Innovation Award for SAUBER4.0, a holistically networked manufacturing approach which aims to make large composite aircraft structures, including ...

The application of new materials and structures technology in commercial transport aircraft depends on a number of interrelated considerations. This part of the report describes trends and forecasts ...

Bombardier has started manufacturing major structural components for the first production example of its ultra-long-range Global 8000, a business jet that is set to succeed the Global 7500 as the ...

The "structural health monitoring" system uses a network of devices that could be attached to, or embedded in, an aircraft or vehicle. Some of the devices, called actuators, send out high-frequency ...