His latest project is a large Airbus A350, and the painstaking build process ... The fuselage and winglets are moulded using 3D printed moulds. These were printed in pieces on a large format ...

The A350 established a new reference for long-haul operations alongside Boeing’s 787 The aircraft’s composite fuselage was a first for Airbus Moreover, given Boeing 787 quality issues and 777X ...

Airbus followed in 2018 with the A350 — like the two-year-old plane involved in Tuesday’s collision — and has sold about 570 of them. In airplanes, composite materials contain carbon fiber ...