Airbus has sent another signal that there are some plastic limits to its enthusiasm for advanced composites in new airliners after all.
Following John Leahy’s answers to Plane Talking’s inquiries in Sydney on Wednesday, November 4, this item is being carried by Bloomberg:
By Sabine Pirone
Nov. 5 (Bloomberg) — Airbus SAS, the world’s largest maker
of passenger jets, [...]
Tag Archives: composites
More talk from Airbus about plastic limits on new jets
November 6, 2009 – 5:54 am
Is tin back in for jets?
October 31, 2009 – 10:42 am
News that China is looking hard at using aluminium rather than composites for much of its proposed Comac C919 airliner raises the question as to whether ‘plastic fantastics’ like the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and Airbus A350 are mistakes.
Both high composite projects make ambitious claims for the use of non-metallic materials. And the first, the 787, [...]
The Dreamliner debacle-Time to tell the truth
June 25, 2009 – 9:36 pm
One of the most troubling aspects of the Dreamliner nightmare is the failure of the jet’s composite structures to behave as predicted by the computer models used by Boeing.
If the assumptions made in the design diverged so sharply from results when the wing was put under stress, what confidence remains in the overall robustness of [...]
Boeing avoids the ‘D’ word
December 16, 2008 – 3:49 pm
Following weekend rumors published in Flightblogger which claimed delamination of carbon fibre composites had occurred in the wing of a static test 787 a statement Boeing made to Jon Ostrower, that blog’s author, has been released to Plane Talking.
Our tests continue to confirm that the composite construction of the
787, including the wing, is sound. [...]
Is the wing peeling apart on the 787?
December 14, 2008 – 7:56 am
Boeing must urgently address US rumors in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and referenced on Jon Ostrower’s Flightblogger here that the wing on the static test 787 Dreamliner in Everett is delaminating.
The key weight saving feature of the 787 is the extensive use of reinforced sheets of carbon fibre bonded together with an epoxy resin [...]
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