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Boeing has begun final assembly of the 787-10 Dreamliner, the latest and biggest member in the Boeing 787 family of commercial aircraft. Two major fuselage sections for the aircraft...

Composite manufacturing specialists at the University of Sheffield’s Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) have made what some have called the world’s first reconfigurable carbon composite robotic machine tool. The...

SpaceX has completed a critical test for the carbon fiber fuel tank of its Interplanetary Transport System spaceship, which is designed to transport humans to Mars. Last month, during an...

A group of sailors known as “Team Falcon” has made history by successfully completing their mission to ‘fly on water’ across the 662-mile open ocean from New York to...

Dr. William Kaukler, a longtime NASA contractor and an associate research professor at the University of Alabama Huntsville’s (UAH) Rotorcraft Systems Engineering and Simulation Center, has been awarded a...

Hussam Mahmoud, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Colorado State University (CSU), is leading a team that’s devising innovative repairs for steel structures in canals and...

Researchers from MIT and NASA have designed a flexible “morphing wing” system made of carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) that draws inspiration from the twisted wings from the Wright Brothers’...

The world’s first fully biocomposite footbridge has been installed at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in The Netherlands. An existing bridge has been moved to make space for the “biobridge”...

Engineers from the University of Utah are launching a $1.6 million project to research cost-effective, eco-friendly methods of turning coal-derived pitch into carbon fiber composite materials. The University says...