Airbus first used composite materials on the vertical stabilizer of the A300 aircraft more than 50 years ago. The most modern Airbus widebody, the A350-XWB, comprises composites on more than 50% ...

The extensive use of composite materials allows the Boeing 787 to have larger windows than previous-generation aircraft.

When a Boeing 777 lost power and crashed short of the runway at London Heathrow Airport in 2008, the landing gear collapsed, and a strut pierced the passenger floor. Yet apart from one broken leg, … ...

Hexcel to supply composite materials for A350 XWB. By Mary Kirby 2008-06-04T11:00:00+01:00.

The Japan Airlines plane that caught fire used carbon-fiber composite materials that are less ... the material's light weight a "game changer" for the Airbus A350. It's also used in the Boeing 787.

It will make the wings of its A350, a midsize jet that will compete against the 787, of composite material. But the A350, scheduled to enter service in 2010, won't have a composite fuselage.

If you take a long international flight ten years from now, there's a good chance the airliner carrying you will be made as much out of plastic as metal.

Hexcel's strategy is to provide composite materials to build successive generations of aircraft within the very consolidated aerospace and defense industry. ... the Airbus A350 and Boeing B787.

The key to that is composite construction, particularly thermoplastics. While composites are used in current planes like the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and Airbus A350, they’re time-consuming to ...

None of these incidents resulted in hull losses, however. The A350 contains 53% composite materials by weight, with composites making up most of its external structure, including its fuselage ...

Airbus followed in 2018 with the A350 — like the 2-year-old plane involved in Tuesday’s collision — and has sold about 570 of them. WHAT IS THE MATERIAL?

The Japan Airlines plane that caught fire used carbon-fiber composite materials that are less ... the material's light weight a "game changer" for the Airbus A350. It's also used in the Boeing 787.