Boeing has completed destructive testing on the 787's all-composite wing box, a process which is part of the aircraft's certification programme. Manufactured by Boeing's Japanese partners, the wing ...

In trying to shave pounds off the overweight 787 Dreamliner, The Boeing Co. ended up with a costly structural issue -- but one it says is being fixed. After published reports that a key 787 customer ...

GKN Aerospace has successfully concluded a composite manufacturing and assembly research programme using of out of autoclave (OOA) processes and materials and PI shaped woven preforms. These ...

Boeing has released video images of the 787 wing box destruction test, designed to validate the airframer's analytical models of the structure. Built by Boeing's Japanese partners the structure is ...

The Breakthrough Laminar Aircraft Demonstrator in Europe (BLADE) project is part of the Clean Sky Smart Fixed Wing Aircraft (SWFA) programme, an extensive, 50% European Union-funded, multi-partner ...

In the Clean Sky 2 IIAMS project, MTorres produced a 4-meter-long outer torque box without fasteners using vacuum bag-only resin infusion for both left and right wings of a C-295 turboprop ...

A milestone has been achieved with the testing of the Clean Sky 2 outer wing box (OWB) full-scale demonstrator which has achieved technology readiness level (TRL) 5, validating its feasibility for ...