The Airbus A350 XWB, composed of more than 50 percent carbon composites, took off on its successful maiden flight last week. A precise and smooth takeoff and landing over Paris's Toulouse-Blaganc ...

The Artemis I rocket, NASA's redesigned aircraft built for a new age of spaceflight, has successfully taken off. It's the beginning of a new era for space exploration. Artemis follows a long tradition ...

Scaled Composites announces the rollout and first flight of its most recent project, experimental aircraft Model 401. Scaled worked with a proprietary customer to build two vehicles to demonstrate ...

Researchers at Lehigh University have built an unusual wing, made of a single piece of carbon fiber composite, for an unusual type of airplane: An unmanned craft designed for high-altitude perpetual ...

During the late years of the Cold War, the US Air Force and NASA wanted to study new aerodynamic concepts and advanced flight-control systems for the design and development of future aircraft. To ...

The Airbus C295 Flight Test Bed 2 (FTB#2) successfully performed its flight campaign, testing a new semi-morphing wing, as well as on-ground structural tests of a novel composite outer wing box.

The autoclave has long defined thermoset composites processing — snap-cure epoxy prepreg systems are built around the premise that it doesn't have to. Even when labs follow ASTM and ISO standards to ...

The Model 437 test pilot reported that the aircraft’s flying and handling qualities were good on the first flight. Credit: Scaled Composites The latest in a long line of experimental Scaled Composites ...

US defence manufacturer Northrop Grumman says subsidiary Scaled Composites has successfully flown a low-cost, single-engined piloted jet called the Model 437 Vanguard. US defence manufacturer Northrop ...

Advanced composite manufacturing technology is key to the Spectrum 33 light jet (pictured below) under development by Spectrum Aeronautical, a company formed by Linden Blue – the former head of ...