Originally Posted by A380focal
It's only the first fully composite airliner - there a plenty of fully composite military planes - the B2 bomber, the eurofighter for example....
Ummm...wrong and wronger.
Both of these examples are constructed from conventional materials under the skin (aluminium, steel & titanium etc), and have carbon fibre and other composite panels and structures attached (e.g canards, intakes, nose cones, wing panels, leading edges, moving surfaces etc).
The B-2 also has a composite-laced paint sprayed over it (you should smell the solvents in the curing hangar...PHEW!)
Cheers
Magoo