Painstaking assembly of ultrasmooth wing sections for Europe’s Airbus A340-based natural laminar flow demonstrator is set to start as the first structural components begin arriving at Aernnova in ...

The flagship demonstration under Europe’s Clean Sky civil aeronautics research program is entering the hardware stage, aiming for first flight of the Airbus A340-300-based laminar flow wing ...

The partners are testing two wing changes to evaluate their respective efficiency Airbus and partners in the Blade initiative are using the A340 prototype to test two wing designs that have the ...

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