Materials & Manufacturing Navy Advances Printed Drone Structures, but Load-Bearing Power Paths Remain Unproven Edward CollinsSeptember 11, 2026September 11, 20260 A conductor embedded inside a composite laminate must do more than carry current. It must remain electrically isolated while the…
Materials & Manufacturing Airbus and Boeing Test Faster Composite Curing, but Assembly Remains the Bottleneck Edward CollinsAugust 18, 2026August 18, 20260 Removing the autoclave will not, by itself, make composite airframes suitable for single-aisle production. Airbus and Boeing are evaluating lower-infrastructure…
Materials & Manufacturing Infinite Composites Adds Automation for Larger, Faster-Built Space Tanks Edward CollinsAugust 17, 2026August 17, 20260 Building a large composite propellant tank starts with controlling thousands of meters of reinforcement, resin and barrier material as one…