A tilt-rotor fixed-wing drone built with bamboo-based composite materials completed its first flight at Tianjin Huanxi Airport on February 9, 2026, achieving vertical takeoff and landing, cruise ...

Composite materials are widely used in the E20 airframe. In order to ensure structural reliability, the composite materials structure and the design strength were verified through full-scale tests.

Sierra Nevada Corporation’s (SNC) Space Systems and Dream Chaser program partner, Lockheed Martin unveiled the Dream Chaser orbital spacecraft composite airframe. This structure will be used to ...

US defence technology company Edo is pressure-testing a prototype composite engine-inlet duct. The duct was manufactured using vacuum-assisted resin transfer moulding (CRTM) and a braiding process ...

Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. (Stratford, Conn., USA), a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp., reported on April 10 that it has successfully completed an initial series of tests required by the Naval Air ...

Under the Design for Manufacture of Attritable Aircraft Primary Structure (DMAAPS) program, an Air Force Research Laboratory Aerospace Systems Directorate team of researchers and engineers tested a ...