all-composite airframe

all-composite aeroplane [ all-composite airplane ]

composite airframe

Umeco is a company registered in England and Wales and listed on the London Stock Exchange. Umeco is a global manufacturer and supplier of composite materials, primarily to the aerospace and defence, industrial, automotive and recreational industries.

Other key features include a fully marinized structure and engines for continuous corrosion resistant operations in a maritime environment; extensive use of composites to increase resistance to corrosion fatigue; state-of-the-art crash-worthiness features in the areas of structural design, load attenuation, passenger safety, payload retention, fire suppression, and emergency escape; triple redundant digital fly-by-wire flight controls and hydraulic systems; Rolls-Royce AE 1107C engines, which share the same engine core as found on the CC-130J; modern avionics with glass ...[+++]cockpit displays; a number of radar options to include weather, maritime search, or terrain-following and terrain avoidance; an ice protection system, which includes both anti-ice and de-ice capabilities certified into known moderate icing—and most of our testing of that system was actually performed in Shearwater; and an open passenger and cargo cabin with roller rails, winch, hoist, and a rear loading ramp to provide the SAR techs with the clearance required to safely perform all necessary ground and airborne tasks. The V-22 program is in full production.

The more efficient aircraft: in order to produce the powerful planes of the future, longer-term research is necessary in the following fields: systems, airframe and operational efficiency, aerodynamics (hybrid laminar flow, etc), structures out of composite materials, etc The "ecological plane" : the objective is to reduce the environmental impact (noise and polluting substances) by research resulting in reducing the size of the planes, the harmful emissions as well as the noise generated by the engines and propellers".