Airbus touts that the high-performance wings of the A350 XWB make the aircraft faster, more efficient and quieter. The wing design includes several streamlined features. Among these are droop-nose ...

The leading edge extension is one of many design modifications the -1000 variant has seen. Each wing of the Airbus A350 is a carbon composite structure. The A350-1000 upper wing skins are one of ...

The high-performance wings of the A350 XWB aircraft family reportedly make the plane faster, more fuel-efficient and (for the passengers) quieter. The wing design includes several streamlined features ...

Spirit AeroSystems shipped the first production leading edge spar component, an outer spar, for the Airbus A350 XWB program from its Kinston, N.C., facility today.

Europe’s answer to the Dreamliner, the Airbus A350 XWB is beginning to take shape The future is plastics, as the young Dustin Hoffman was memorably told in the 1960s classic film The Graduate.

GE Aviation begins production of the wing fixed trailing edge package for the Airbus’ A350-1000 ... Head of Wing (left), receives the first A350-1000 metal cut part (Spoiler 1 Hinge Bracket ...

Like Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner, the A350 has wings, tail and fuselage made from carbon-fiber composites. The initial A350-900 model, which entered service last year and carries 325 passengers ...

Airbus SA has announced that it will stop production of the A380 super jumbo aircraft in 2021, a move that will impact some in-house composites production as the company puts more focus on smaller ...

Alenia Aeronautica is aiming to secure structural work on the Airbus A350 XWB programme, as another piece of the major workshare allocation slotted into place this week with Spirit AeroSystems ...

Spirit Europe, the UK based European Headquarters of Spirit AeroSystems, Inc. has announced a signed contract with Airbus to design and produce a major wing structure for the A350 XWB ...