Stork Fokker Carbon/PEKK Floor Beam Prototype Illustration: Karl Reque Although reinforced engineering thermoplastics have lagged behind thermosets in aircraft structures ... explored these attributes ...

Airbus, through the Thermoplastic Affordable Primary Aircraft Structure (TAPAS) consortium, intends to demonstrate a TPC torsion box, such as that used in horizontal tails, featuring induction welded ...

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 ...

Joby has successfully completed static load testing of the tail structure, marking the first time the Company has tested a major aerostructure of its aircraft for-credit with FAA representatives ...