As a leading supplier of components for the aircraft industry, GKN Aerospace produces aircraft parts exclusively from carbon fiber composite materials at its Munich plant. As aircraft components are ...

However, “we may have to do a better job of maintaining these parts of the aircraft and inspect composite-type material more closely,” said Lee Dickinson, an engineer and failure analysis ...

is taking advantage of these possibilities in small components for military aircraft programs ... have been added to improve tensile properties. The resulting composite parts, because of the carbon ...

(July 19, 2013) -- In the future, Army aircraft may be made of all composite materials ... as well as just-in-time tooling for parts with complex curves or topography. And in addition to repair ...

Lufthansa Technik is using what it says is the world’s first automated adaptive robot system that can be applied to a multitude of MRO processes for composite aircraft parts, including radome ...

The rest of the field consisted of parts makers. Dave Hice, Epic general manager. Photo by Lance Hardy But that’s changing as several new aircraft makers have come to Oregon in recent years, bringing ...

lightweight composite parts—increasing military system performance and compressing tool development and fabrication cycles. The manufacturing process for defense systems—from aircraft to vehicles to ...

A Spokane facility researching light-weight aircraft parts in an effort to make planes more environmentally-friendly has lost ...

Composites consist of stacked layers of structural ... so it could be used in the manufacturing of aircraft parts, wind turbine blades, gas pipes, and other items. A paper on the research, which ...

In the first, sensor data on an aircraft coming in for a maintenance check could be used to determine whether composite parts are damaged, whether an immediate repair is required or whether the ...