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Airbus partner, Premium AEROTEC, has successfully completed the curing of the largest A350 XWB fuselage panel made from carbon fibre at its site in Nordenham (Germany) - as unveiled on the 18th of ...
Airbus SAS, aiming to begin assembly of its A350 wide-body jetliner by yearend, completed the curing of the plane’s largest fuselage panel from carbon composites as the company works to keep the ...
A gigantic Russian Antonov carried the first Airbus A350 XWB composite fuselage section panels from Spirit AeroSystems’ plant in Kinston, N.C., where they were manufactured, to its plant in St ...
The most innovative aspect of the panel might be the design of the integrated skin and stringers, which represents a significant departure from traditional composite fuselage skin/stringer ...
Aerolia runs up A350 panel production. By Michael Gubisch 2011-06-18T11:00:00+01:00. ... The first A350 nose fuselage section is to be delivered "between June and September", ...
The 20 metre long carbon fibre A350 XWB aft fuselage is made up of the rear fuselage barrel, produced at Airbus’ Getafe plant (Spain), two lateral aft fuselage panels made by Premium AEROTEC (Germany) ...
Spirit AeroSystems, Inc. delivered its first composite center fuselage section for Airbus’ A350 XWB program, the company said Monday. The upper and forward lower composite fuselage panels were ...
Spirit AeroSystems said it shipped the Airbus A350's first production composite center fuselage panels from its Kinston, N.C., plant to Saint-Nazaire, France, where final upper shell assembly is ...
Airbus has begun evaluating the potential impact of the A350 XWB’s carbon fiber fuselage on cabin acoustics, using its A340-300 test aircraft, MSN001. The A340 has a 162-sq.-ft (15 sq. meter ...
Airbus supersalesman John Leahy says he’ll have a trump card when selling the new A350 jet against Boeing’s 787: a composite plastic fuselage that’s more easily repaired. In a phone ...
Airbus has started test-flying a carbon-fibre reinforced plastic fuselage panel intended to become a standard structural component of the A350.
Boeing got a PR bonus Tuesday as International Lease Finance Corp. CEO Steve Udvar-Hazy, after endorsing the 787 Dreamliner, continued his public spat with Airbus over its manufacturing plan for ...