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 ...

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 first four of seven composite layup molds for the Airbus A380 wing center section skin were recently shipped to Airbus-Nantes in France from UCAR Composites in Irvine, Calif. The A380 will ...

Airbus Chief Executive Tom Enders said the discovery inside the superjumbo's wings, where new lightweight carbon-composite materials and traditional metal meet, showed the difficulty of pushing ...

As CW reported earlier, the wings for the first Airbus A350-1000 have begun the process of assembly in Broughton, North Wales. This news is pretty significant to the composites industry as the company ...

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 ...

A tier-one supplier to Airbus believes that the wrong type of resin material has been chosen for the A350's wing spars and is urging the airframer to rethink the selection. GKN, which manufactures ...

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, ...

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 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 ...

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 ...