Airlines are constantly disposing of old aircraft and acquiring new ones. The reasons rarely have much—if anything—to do with ...

The Airbus A380 has always been a firm passenger favorite. It is a unique double-decker aircraft and the world's largest ...

Hexcel is one of the three major manufacturers of advanced carbon fiber and resin composite materials ... product lines (wings and fuselages for Boeing 787s and Airbus A350s) will be muted.

Back in the day, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas designed their aircraft cockpits with an additional set of windows located ...

Bertrand George, head of Beluga XL program said, “the airframe had already been reinforced in certain areas and, in these days of composite materials ... the wing. By 2013, Airbus were producing ...

The study introduced that a piston connected to a closed mould can do what an autoclave will never do, to give independent control to the 6 key process parameters that drive composite material quality ...

To compete with Rolls-Royce to power the ultra-wide-body Airbus A380, of which only about ... carbon fiber, and other composite material turbine blades attached to equally exquisite “razors ...

the A380neo would use modern composite materials already seen on the Airbus A350 for the wings and fuselage. Clark noted that composites were not widespread when Airbus first developed the A380 in the ...

Emirates' president, Tim Clark, tells Business Insider other airlines would order a more-fuel-efficient version of the ...

While Boeing is bogged down, its archrival is pulling ahead with a new model that’s a symbol of their diverging fortunes.