Applications for CFRP include the following:
Aerospace engineering[edit]
Airbus A350, 53% composite materials
The Airbus A350 XWB is built of 53% CFRP[4] including wing and fuselage components, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, 50%. The A380 is the first commercial airliner to have a central wing box made of CFRP; it is also the first to have a smoothly contoured wing cross section instead of the wings beings partitioned span-wise into sections. This flowing, continuous cross section optimises aerodynamic efficiency. [5]
In 1968 a Hyfil carbon-fibre fan assembly was in service on the Rolls-Royce Conways of the Vickers VC10s operated by BOAC[6]
Specialist aircraft designer and manufacturer Scaled Composites have made extensive use of CFRP throughout their design range including the first private manned spacecraft Spaceship One.
CFRP is widely used in micro air vehicles (MAVs) because of its high strength to weight ratio.
Ultralight aircraft (see SSDR) such as the E-Go, rely heavily on CFRP in order to meet the category weight compliance requirement of less than 115 kg (254 lb) without pilot or fuel.