Airbus has completed structural assembly of the first flying A350-900 prototype’s initial wing box at its Broughton plant in the UK. Airbus has completed structural assembly of the first flying ...

Boeing has completed destructive testing on the 787's all-composite wing box, a process which is part of the aircraft's certification programme. Manufactured by Boeing's Japanese partners, the wing ...

Australian company AMSL Aero is preparing to start flight tests on what it claims will be the world's most efficient eVTOL design, and one of the most affordable. This box-wing beauty, the Vertiia, ...

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 throughput of composites manufacturing technologies used to fabricate wings for the A350 and 787 will not be adequate for next-generation single-aisle planes. Such programs, with an anticipated ...