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The advantages of building aircraft structures with composites, compared to metal, include light weight, high specific strength, superior fatigue properties, damage tolerance and the absence of corrosion.

The Wing of Tomorrow integrates myriad new composite materials and processing technologies, including thermoplastic composite ribs, an out-of-autoclave vacuum bag only spar, infused skins and much more.

REGENT Craft reveals the first full-scale prototype of its all-electric composite maritime vessel, kicks off testing campaign that will culminate in human seaglider flight mid-year.

The Lilium Jet demonstrator has now achieved transition from hover to wing-borne flight across the entire main wing while remaining stable, behaving as predicted via Lilium’s Flight Dynamics Model.

Demonstrator will test 30%-scale version of 52-meter composite wing with electrically-powered actuating hinged wing tip for improved efficiency and decarbonization in flight.

Event featured insights from project partners regarding novel materials testing, addressing technical challenges and the path to certification to better understand AWE systems and their potential.

Advancing through a third of the program in just three months, Archer continues to make rapid progress toward planned full wing-borne transition flight in Phase 2.

HERON project methodology will be used to manufacture a composite aircraft wing demonstrator, which will be suitable to study the wing’s technical parameters and kinematic and aerodynamic properties.

Airbus is evaluating several advanced composites technologies as part of its Wing of Tomorrow program. Among these is liquid resin infusion of the lower wing skin, being developed by Spirit AeroSystems.

A review of the quest to eliminate both the autoclave and mechanical fasteners in composite wing structures.

Fortifying Airbus’ decarbonization ambition, the biomimetic-inspired demonstrator will focus on improving and optimizing wing aerodynamics, performance for future aircraft.