The Airbus A380 HTP: the world’s largest airborne composite tanker Latest composite technologies (ATL, RTM, automated drilling) are applied to a stabilizer that is larger than a 120-passenger aircraft ...

Like Boeing, Airbus says it also has designed the A380 so that invisible damage cannot produce a significant subsurface flaw, and that ultrasounds and other imaging methods are needed only if ...

In October 2022, Airbus auctioned five hundred A380 parts retrieved from the deconstruction of Airbus A380 MSN 13 by TARMAC Aerosave.

Source: Karl Reque, IllustrationSchematic of the composite rib structure in the A380 vertical tail. Made with traditional hand layup methods, they exceed the weight goal by more than 25 percent, at an ...

Dirgantara Indonesia, a supplier of aluminum wing components for Airbus SE’s A320 and A380 model jets, is developing the production capability to supply non-metal aircraft parts as well.

A380 parts derived from recycling will long be needed to support the existing fleet of the aircraft, especially as more and more airlines bring their superjumbos back into service.

Nor is Airbus using composites for the fuselage of its A380 superjumbo. The fuselage will use both metal and a material called Glare, which is made up of alternating lawyers of aluminum sheets and ...

To reduce the weight of aircraft seats, a major seat manufacturer switched several of its seating elements from aluminum to carbon-fiber-reinforced composites.

Every aircraft suffers two deaths. The first is when it stops being built, the second is when it stops flying. The double-decker superjumbo Airbus A380 just suffered the first, with Airbus ...

Even newer planes made with composites, like the A380, still have aluminum parts. But some cracks do matter more than others.