UK manufacturer GKN has shown off the first examples of prototype composite rear wing spars for the Airbus A350 XWB wing-box demonstrator at its Yeovil plant. The prototype manufacture milestone is ...

In 1971, CASA, which is now split into Airbus España S.L. and EADS CASA, joined the Airbus venture to supply the horizontal stabiliser for the Airbus A300. Parts delivered – mainly on the Horizontal ...

Older Airbus A380 operators are set to be ordered to check for cracking in the region of the outer rear wing spar. The European Union Aviation Safety Agency has disclosed that cracks have been ...

Airbus A380s that sit idle in severe environmental conditions may be susceptible to wing-spar cracking previously linked to the wing’s age, prompting the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) ...

Shown here is the spar structure developed by Daher for the Airbus Wing of Tomorrow (WOT) program. It is fabricated with Hexcel’s M56 epoxy prepregged into AS4 carbon fiber fabric and IM7 UD carbon ...

With all the excitement surrounding the upcomingBoeing 777X family of widebody aircraft, whose passenger variants are known as the 777-8 and 777-9, it can be easy to forget the fact that this series ...