The Airbus A350 is one of the most technologically advanced commercial aircraft ever built, but its journey to an airline begins long before final assembly in France. Unlike products manufactured at a ...
Riveting remains a cornerstone of aircraft structural assembly, providing a robust and reliable means of joining sheet-metal components in fuselage skins, wing panels and internal frames. The process ...
Airbus remains on course to hit its annual target of roughly 870 commercial jet deliveries this year, despite recent factory ...
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 ...
The turbulent air above a wildfire is punishing to aircraft structures. The excessive and frequent loads place an inordinate number of loading cycles on an aircraft, leading to accelerated crack ...
Inside the massive testing hangars across Seattle and Everett, the world's biggest jetliners are turned into mechanical lab rats. Hydraulic actuators yank their wings skyward, compressors simulate ...
Wichita State University’s National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) recently completed a long-term full-scale fatigue test program with General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) for ...
Austria’s first Embraer C-390 tactical transport has entered the structural assembly process at the Brazilian airframer’s Gaviao Peixoto production facility. “We’re thrilled to start production… and ...
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