Airbus first presented the idea of the A3XX in the 1990s, as a rival and successor to the Boeing 747. At the time, the 747 was one of the most popular jets in the world, with mass appeal owing partly ...

The A380 will have the first composite wing center section box on a transport aircraft. The first mold, shown here, is 14.4 X 8.5 ft., and was designed and built in 14 weeks.

It will make the wings of its A350, a midsize jet that will compete against the 787, of composite material. But the A350, scheduled to enter service in 2010, won't have a composite fuselage.

The cracked wings of the Airbus A380 double-decker airliner are the result of new technologies mixed with insufficient design controls that are now causing spiraling repair costs, Chief Executive ...

Airbus said efforts to lower the weight of the world's largest airliner lay behind recent A380 wing cracks and pledged to learn from mistakes that lay dormant for a decade, as repair costs looked ...

Airbus SAS said it’s working on a two-step fix of cracked wing brackets on its A380 that emerged during inspections and stem from a combination of manufacturing processes and materials used on ...

A number of wing ribs are distributed along the wing – more than 40 on each wing of the Airbus A380 – and these run from the front to the back of the wing’s internal structure.

Airbus’ (Toulouse, France) Wing of Tomorrow (WoT) program has reached a new milestone with the assembly of the program’s first full-size wing prototype, the company announced on Sept. 22. In total, ...

The cracked wings of the Airbus A380 double-decker airliner are the result of new technologies mixed with insufficient design controls that are now causing spiraling repair costs, Chief Executive ...