Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Technical Review
    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.