Headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, Bell Textron is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Textron Inc. It operates in the military and ...

Composite airframes were important in defense systems before the Boeing 787 made them a household word. The basics of building even 80-ft.-long single-piece composite wingboxes have been conquered.

Figure 1. Vacuum chamber (left) and hot bond controller (right) along with a vacuum source for the inner bag and chamber are all connected and ready to run a double vacuum debulk (DVD) process. Inset ...

Fig. 1. Strip-type deformation sensors. One ply of cured carbon fiber/epoxy prepreg to be monitored is used as a thin, flexible sheet with optical fibers — one embedded in the upper surface and one in ...

The tool is designed for out-of-autoclave composite debulking and curing and adhesive bonding, whether in hangars, lab ...

Syensqo (Brussels, Belgium; a global leader in advanced materials, and Bell Textron, Inc. (Fort Worth, Tex.; an ...

Non-autoclave manufacturing process proven viable for making large, reusable fuel tanks The viability of a reusable launch vehicle got a major technological boost recently when Northrop Grumman ...

ROMEO, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--L&L Products announces the launch of its proprietary InsituCore™ foaming materials for lightweight composite manufacturing. These new materials enable simplified ...

Robots on either side of the flat sheet manipulate the metal into its final shape. Credit: Machina Labs Machina Labs is to develop its robotic sheet metal forming process to manufacture metal tooling ...