Airbus built the A350XWB with approximately 53% composite materials by weight, allowing airlines like Delta Air Lines, Qatar Airways, and Singapore Airlines to reduce fuel burn by roughly 25% compared ...

A look into the materials used for the wings and fuselage of Boeing's newest long-range, twin-engine jetliner.

The Boeing Co. (Chicago, Ill., U.S.) reports that an inner fuselage skin surface nonconformity initially discovered in fuselage Sections 47 and 48, the two aftbody fuselage sections of the ...

Aircraft structures supplier Spirit AeroSystems is using the Paris air show to call attention to research work it hopes will enable the next generation of narrowbody jets to have composite fuselages.

NEWARK, DE / ACCESS Newswire / April 13, 2026 / According to the latest analysis by Future Market Insights, the global advanced composite fuselage panel systems for next-gen narrow-bodies market is ...

Leonardo is nearing the end of the design phase for a pair of composite fuselage demonstrators for a future aircraft under the Green Regional Aircraft workstream of the EU’s Clean Sky 2 programme. The ...