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Airbus A350: 5 Facts That Make It A Special Plane
With the Airbus A350 being a clean-sheet design, Airbus was able to utilize 53% composite materials. The material used is known as Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic (CFRP), and by utilizing this ...
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With Demand on the Rise, Hexcel Is Refocusing on Its Niche in Aerospace Composite Materials
Hexcel is one of the three major manufacturers of advanced carbon fiber and resin composite materials ... the Airbus A350 and Boeing B787. The concentration of Hexcel's customers in the aerospace ...
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A jet‘s carbon-composite fiber fuselage burned on a Tokyo runway. Is the material safe?
The fire is shaping up as a key test of the safety of composite materials compared with conventional ... a 2013 fire on an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 787 that was parked at London’s Heathrow ...