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 ...

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho, June 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Continuous Composites (CCI), a leader in advanced composite manufacturing, has been awarded a U.S. Army Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) ...

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 ...

Infinite Composites (IC) reported the successful use of its proprietary Infinite Composite Pressure Vessel (iCPV) technology on 2 operational satellites currently in orbit. This represents the 1 st ...

The Boeing Co. (Seattle, Wash., USA) announced on June 23 that first flight of the composites-intensive 787 Dreamliner will be postponed due to a need to reinforce an area within the side-of-body ...

Boom Supersonic’s (Denver, Colo., U.S.) supersonic demonstrator aircraft, XB-1, has taken to the skies again to successfully complete its thirdd flight. The flight was piloted by chief test pilot ...

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 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 ...

Ceramic matrix composite (CMC) materials are made of coated ceramic fibers surrounded by a ceramic matrix. They are tough, lightweight and capable of withstanding temperatures 300-400 degrees F hotter ...

Dutch company SP Aerospace and Vehicle Systems is to begin testing the use of composites in civil landing gear following the successful first flight of a similar system being developed for use on ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State’s history of leadership in aerospace research and development, Bulldog “air raid” offense, and a nod to the university’s history mark the return of a vintage logo ...

Ceramic matrix composite (CMC) materials are made of coated ceramic fibers surrounded by a ceramic matrix. They are tough, lightweight and capable of withstanding temperatures 300–400 degrees F hotter ...