This five-plus passenger, single-engine, V-tailed personal jet will sport an OOA-composites-enabled low maximum takeoff weight of 2,722 kg. We here at CW put together a supplement published with the ...

Composite materials are essential in the aerospace industry. To shape them, autoclaves, high-pressure and high-temperature chambers are traditionally used. But to optimise energy consumption and ...

In parallel to developing new recycling solutions, the r-LightBioCom project is also rethinking how high-performance composites are manufactured, with a strong focus on energy efficiency, ...

Boeing’s next innovation in composites could render autoclaves obsolete, says Boeing chairman Jim McNerney. The epoxy resin within the composite structures that comprise the fuselage of the 787 and ...

Composite airframes were important in defense systems before the Boeing 787 made them a household word. The basics of building even 80-ft.-long single-piece composite wingboxes have been conquered.

For the past decade, United Launch Alliance (ULA, Centennial, CO, US) has been a cornerstone of US space industry launch system activities. The Boeing Co. (Chicago, IL, US) and Lockheed Martin (El ...

Airplane wings and wind turbine blades are typically created using bulk polymerization in composite manufacturing facilities. They are heated and cured in enormous autoclaves and heated molds as big ...

Engineers have developed a method to produce aerospace-grade composites without the enormous ovens and pressure vessels. The technique may help to speed up the manufacturing of airplanes and other ...

Composites have become key materials for strategic industries such as aerospace, new energy vehicles, and high-end equipment due to their superior specific ...

Alenia Composite is acquiring a second autoclave to mitigate the risk of disruption to its one-piece fuselage barrel production for the Boeing 787 programme. The manufacturer's Grottaglie facility ...