The aerospace industry has spent decades making aircraft lighter, stronger, and more fuel-efficient. However, ...

A hairline crack forms deep inside an aircraft wing, invisible to the naked eye but capable of growing into a catastrophic failure. Today, finding and fixing that kind of damage means grounding the ...

MEL Composites is supporting leading gyroplane manufacturer ELA Aviation with a range of high-performance composite materials ...

RVmagnetics and Airbus unveiled a sensing mat that cuts sensor installation time by up to 80% in out-of-autoclave composite ...

Manufacturers of the Stratolaunch air-launch platform used Collier Research’s automated sizing and analysis software to inform laminate design and production NEWPORT NEWS, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--When ...

iSurface, a project led by Munro Technology, Z Prime, Axalp Technologies AG and researchers from Swiss university of applied sciences FHNW (Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz), unveiled a new intelligent ...

Figure 1. Transfer of current manually performed drilling processes at CFRP vertical tail planes (VTPs) to mobile cobots. Photo Credit, all images: Fraunhofer IFAM At its 4,500-square-meter research ...

ATK: Alliant Techsystems has delivered a technological first to NASA: a full-scale, crew module structure made of composite materials. The Composite Crew Module (CCM) is a unique capsule design that ...

Deutsche Aircraft and Hexcel Corporation (NYSE:HXL) today jointly announced the signing of a long‑term industrial partnership ...

Airbus is adopting a gradual transition to composite materials in aircraft design to ensure the advantages of composites are established before committing to their extensive use in aircraft structures ...

GSE Dynamics (Hauppauge, N.Y., U.S.) was founded in April 1971 by Daniel J. Shybunko, who came from a background as a structural engineer at Grumman Aerospace and received their support to open his ...