Aircraft are becoming lighter as composite materials replace metal in their components and airframes. Commercial aircraft component manufacturer ATK is employing a variety of new technologies to ...

Composite prototype parts were produced for the aircraft manufacturer at the BBG technical center at Oxford, Mich, U.S., and, satisfied with the production technology, the aerospace company ordered a ...

Lufthansa Technik is using what it says is the world’s first automated adaptive robot system that can be applied to a multitude of MRO processes for composite aircraft parts, including radome ...

The Boeing YF-118G Bird of Prey was a revolutionary experimental aircraft developed in secret at Area 51 during the 1990s to ...

It’s no easy task recycling an A380, but someone’s got to do it. Here’s how one company breaks down the world’s largest passenger plane, recycling around 90% of the aircraft, and ...

End-of-life aircraft recycling program is for thermoplastic composites.

Switchblade to be Built with Recyclable and Non-Toxic Thermoplastic Carbon Composite Materials PRINEVILLE, Ore., Nov. 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Samson Sky, producers of the Switchblade Flying Car ...

A Spokane facility researching light-weight aircraft parts in an effort to make planes more environmentally-friendly has lost $48 million in federal funding.

Composites are essentially materials made up of 2 or more phases or constituent parts, ... The recycling of composites is a two-step process that involves separating composites from other aircraft ...

At 700,000 square feet, Boeing Winnipeg is the largest composite manufacturing facility in the country and likely the largest composites aircraft parts plant in the world. The composite parts ...