Abstract: A method for applying a cover to an aircraft wing including placing a skin provided with one or more manholes on the aircraft wing; placing a gasket for the, or each, manhole of the skin; placing a plug in the, or each, manhole; and curing the aircraft wing with the cover, the cover comprising the skin, the gasket or gaskets and the plug or plugs. The aircraft wing includes a cover applied by the described method including a skin, one or more gaskets and one or more plugs.

Abstract: A resistive heated aircraft component, comprising a fiber reinforced polymer surface and further comprising a graphene paper having first and second opposite faces, a pair of electrodes connected to the graphene paper, the graphene paper and the pair of electrodes being configured to conduct an electrical current such that the graphene paper produces heat, the second face of the graphene paper being located towards the fiber reinforced polymer surface of the aircraft, and a protective layer located on the first face of the graphene paper.

Abstract: A joining method for thermoplastic elements that comprises the steps of providing two thermoplastic parts having two surfaces to be joined, locating a graphene layer between the two thermoplastic parts adjacent to the surfaces to be joined, and heating the graphene layer such that the graphene layer melts the thermoplastic resin of the adjacent surfaces of the two thermoplastic parts that are to be joined.

Abstract: Non-straight ducts for conducting fluids at temperatures higher than 280° C. and pressures higher than 4 bar made of a composite material and, particularly, hot air bleed ducts of an aircraft made of a carbon-fiber reinforced polymer aimed to reduce weight of the bleeding system by replacing most of the metallic material from which the bleeding ducts are currently made.