The Airbus A320 family aircraft fuselage structure assembly line will get some help — in the form of 20 robots. The airframer inaugurated the new “highly automated” assembly line for the narrowbody ...

A frequently cited statistic for Boeing's newest clean-sheet aircraft, the 787 Dreamliner, is that it is composed of 50% ...

A350 XWB aft fuselage (for MSN1) assembled in Hamburg. Photo by H. Jansen, courtesy, Airbus Airbus has completed structural assembly of the first A350 XWB aft fuselage of aircraft MSN1, which will be ...

On November 28, 2023, a stakeholder event with around 100 participants took place in the context of the “Multi Functional Fuselage Demonstrator” (“MFFD”) at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing ...

Engineers at BAE Systems production facility in Samlesbury, North West England have produced one of the world’s most advanced aircraft structures. The structure, based on a 4:5 scale Dassault Falcon ...

A research team at Drexel University's College of Engineering, led by Professors Ahmad R. Najafi, Jonathan Awerbuch, and Tein-Min Tan of mechanical engineering and mechanics, has developed a new way ...

May 12, 2007 The 787 Dreamliner is the fastest-selling airplane in aviation history, with firm orders for 567 airplanes from 44 airlines. Perhaps even more intriguingly, it required a complete ...

Boeing Australia has completed assembly of the fuselage structure of the first ‘loyal wingman’ unmanned aircraft it is developing in partnership with the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). Boeing ...

This is episode 38 of CW Talks. In this episode, CW’s Scott Stephenson, director for strategic initiatives and events, talks to Alan Hiken, COO of Kane Robotics. Alan has long experience with ...

A technology that can expedite the process of inspecting aircraft structures for cracks received FAA approval on March 3. While the supplemental type certificate (STC) applies to one specific ...