Balsa wood has long been revered for its strength and lightweight composition, two properties that make it ideal for building model structures and airplanes. Researchers from the US and China have ...

Still, Waltham's choice of balsa wood might seem unlikely, known as it is for the making of model aircraft rather than musical instruments. It is actually not the first time that balsa wood has ...

Base Materials introduces a high-performance, toughened epoxy tooling board designed for thermoforming and vacuum forming processes, direct-to-part applications and more.

Base Materials introduces a high-performance, toughened epoxy tooling board designed for thermoforming and vacuum forming processes, direct-to-part applications and more.

you’d be building the frame out of thin balsa ribs and covering it all up with tissue paper. Which incidentally was more or less how they built most real airplanes prior to the 1930s ...

retained wood and fabric construction, biplanes gave way to monocoque cockpits and metal construction. Enclosed cockpits and increasingly powerful engines boosted aircraft capability in addition ...

His passion for aviation began in childhood with balsa-wood gliders his aunt would buy for him at the corner store. Follow Jonathan on Twitter @JonathanWelsh4 ...

More commonly known as the balsa tree, Ochroma is found in many Latin American countries and is the source of the lightweight wood used to make snap-together model dinosaurs, Popsicle sticks ...

During WWII, the British initiated Project Habakkuk, which aimed to construct an aircraft carrier not made from wood and steel but from pykrete, which is a mixture of ice and wood pulp.