The Ohio expansion of eVTOL manufacturer Joby Aviation is providing something approaching a case study in advanced air mobility manufacturing and specifically what the evolution of an aircraft program ...

Alpha Metalcraft Group is pioneering direct nickel plating for composite rotor blades, cutting manufacturing costs, ...

As part of the project, Fraunhofer IFAM not only started up a specially designed new low-pressure plasma plant for web material, but also developed plasma processes which can be used to apply an ...

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy and Energy System Technology (IWES) have launched a project to automate the process of manufacturing rotor blades wind turbines in an effort to ...

Hill helicopter’s main rotor blade is a complex amalgamation of CFRP, GFRP, unidirectional and biaxial materials that is cured in a single process. Source (All Images) | Hill Helicopters Helicopter ...

Pre-treatment-free coatable demonstrator of a rotor blade shell segment protected by the Peel Plas release film. Photo Credit, all images: Fraunhofer IFAM Within the joint project OptiBlade, ...

This experiment will solve a current technological gap by developing a smart “digital twin” that optimises the curing process in blade manufacturing. Funded by the Office of Energy Efficiency & ...