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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.

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.

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.

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

Spirit is responsible for developing and manufacturing the eVTOL’s wings at its Belfast, Northern Ireland facility, where the company has built years of composites manufacturing expertise.

Additional composites-intensive SR Series and Vision Jet manufacture support, along with equipment, storage and technical tools will be added over the next few years.

Bell has been given the opportunity to build an X-Plane demonstrator based on a stop/fold tiltrotor. 

The Tier 1 supplier will design, fabricate and provide quality assurance of primary composite structures for the Natilus N3.8T prototype, to be used for air freight transport.

CAMX 2025: Loop Technology’s flagship FibreLine system, recently combined with Zünd’s Aero Q-Line, leverages a variety of automated tools to lay up very large, wide-format, multilayer plies into a mold with millimeter precision.

GKN will deliver wing structures and wiring systems for the composites-intensive, zero-emissions aircraft.