In simple terms, the Airbus A380 typically achieves better fuel efficiency per seat mile than most variants of the Boeing 747 ...

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 ...

FARNBOROUGH, England, July 17 -- Airbus SAS's new top executive Monday revealed the redesign of a passenger jet that could prove critical in helping the European aircraft maker recover from what ...

The Airbus A380 HTP: the world’s largest airborne composite tanker. Latest composite technologies ... – were already made out of composite materials. Composites technology was emerging at that time ...

HITCO selected materials identical to those specified for the majority of the composite parts on the A380 - high-modulus carbon fiber unidirectional prepreg tape and intermediate modulus 0°/90° woven ...

The Airbus A380 could be an ideal transition aircraft for part-out companies to improve their carbon fiber recycling capabilities in the years before composite-heavy, newer-generation aircraft ...

The Airbus A380 super-jumbo is a plane for the annals of aviation history. When it goes into service later this year, ... fuel-efficient twin engines and lightweight composite materials.

The Airbus A380 is the world’s largest passenger airliner, having surpassed the various incarnations of rival Boeing’s 747 “Jumbo Jet”. The A380-800 variant had a cabin space that measured ...

Which means Airbus is going after the wrong target. It's playing "in a sand trap of stupidity," Aboulafia says. "I think it's really desperation," an effort to rejuvenate the moribund A380.

Carrying nearly 500 Airbus employees, the A380 took ... Composites have several advantages over traditional materials. ... Boeing's Dreamliner will be 50 percent composite--twice as much as the A380.

The Airbus A300's tail, made of a non-metallic composite material, snapped off before the plane crashed, killing all 260 people on board and five on the ground. The A300 is an older Airbus model.