Vol. 51 No. 4 (2014)   Aerospace Technology
New Products

Production Technology of Large-Scale Composite Wings for Commercial Aircraft

787 DIVISION
COMMERCIAL AVIATION & TRANSPORTAT ION SYSTEMS

A composite wing structure was selected for the Boeing 787, and this was a first for a commercial aircraft. MHI developed production technology for large-scale composite wings. This article describes an outline of the technical problems and their solutions.