The Carbon Fiber Butterfly is the world’s lightest RC Plane. Between its transparent plastic wings, the carbon fiber skeleton, the prop, controller chip, drivetrain and rudder, it weighs 3.6 ...

The jet's wing flex allows the aircraft to withstand challenging outside conditions while limiting disturbance for passengers ...

Designing and 3D printing RC planes offer several interesting challenges, ... a cheap carbon fiber arrow from Walmart serves as a spar in the main wing section.

Due to its prohibitive cost, carbon fiber isn’t so popular in the furniture world. Davide Anzalone shows one way the material could shine in everyday applications. Brands That Matter Final ...

The plane is slated to enter service by decade’s end as the first twin-engine jet to haul a jumbo’s payload, while burning 12 percent less fuel than the competing Airbus A350-1000 and 20 ...

Props for your little RC airplane or drone are effectively consumables. ... the carbon fiber laid over it, ... such as on a fixed-wing airplane, where the ideal pitch varies with airspeed.

In order to lift a 38-pound printer (plus batteries), the RC plane was roughly half the size of a two-person Piper Cub. The craft had a 16-foot wing span and was made of wood, foam, carbon fiber ...

Airbus and Qatar Airways have teamed up to bring us a carbon-fiber flying palace that reduces the severity of jet lag. The A350 XWB jet was designed earlier in 2015, but first touched down in the ...

And we’re not talking about the GT3 RC F racecar, but the RC F Carbon model. That’s the top trim level of the new sportscar. We haven’t seen one in real life yet, but Lexus Europe recently ...

Those used in the Airbus A350's wing and fuselage are known as carbon fiber reinforced polymers, or CFRPs, per The Guardian. Industry new site Simple Flying last year called the material's light ...

Airbus’ newest addition the “AlbatrossOne”, a model based on the A321, is constructed from carbon-fiber and glass-fiber-reinforced polymers and has “semi-aeroelastic” hinged wing-tips.