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Designed to make yacht mainsail handling simpler and easier, GMT Composites' (Bristol, R.I.) Park Avenue Pocket Boom doubles as mainsail foundation and sail container. Unlike conventional mainsail booms, the Pocket Boom, as its name implies, is a open-ended, three-sided structure with a flat-bottomed "U" shape in

Boom Technology describes its program to validate a cost-effective faster-than-sound airliner.

NONA Composites’ 32m REACH structure meets tight remediation schedule at DoE radioactive waste storage site.

VoltAero inaugurates its industrial facility in Rochefort for the final assembly line for the family of Cassio electric-hybrid aircraft, to incorporate composite elements.

A 25% weight reduction vs. legacy steel yields economics that justify upfront cost of carbon fiber.

Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract to begin development of a "low boom" flight demonstration aircraft in NASA's X-planes program.

Boom Technology (Denver, CO, US), a 2014 start-up aircraft developer, is in the process of building the XB-1, a flying 1/3-scale demonstrator of its supersonic (faster than sound) commercial aircraft.

An unprecedented US onshore energy boom during the past decade has brought the country to near fossil-fuel energy independence.

Could it be that carbon fiber is heading for a boom? Consider unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) just one new, relatively high-volume application (see News, p. 9). In a draft of a future "road map," the Pentagon wants to spend 10 billion dollars by 2010 to quadruple the size of the unmanned force. Based on successes

Despite political and supply chain challenges, renewable and nuclear energy continue to grow in use. Composite materials enable current and future energy technologies across sectors.