A major technological breakthrough in aerospace manufacturing has arisen from the joint efforts of Saab and Divergent ...

Boeing and Airbus have led the way for the use of modern composites and have achieved incredible advancements through different paths.

WICHITA — It takes more than 200,000 fasteners to hold a Boeing 737 together, and many of them are installed manually by mechanics at Spirit AeroSystems. "You can run your finger down and feel how ...

As part of the EU-funded Clean Sky 2/Clean Aviation project “Large Passenger Aircraft” (“LPA”), the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft in Stade, Germany, together with international project partners, has joined ...

Industry experts believed they knew where to look for crack-inducing metal fatigue on aging airplanes, but the in-flight rupture of a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 on Friday has raised concerns about ...

Aero Vodochody’s L-39NG has passed fuselage strength tests, as the company works towards certification of the advanced jet trainer. Using the fuselage of aircraft 7002, which is earmarked for static ...

Spirit AeroSystems has assembled its first Boeing 767 forward fuselage, a milestone for a company that has previously produced, but not assembled, sections of the 767’s forward fuselage. Wichita-based ...

Boeing Co. said it’s seeing a sharp drop in defects on 737 Max fuselages arriving from supplier Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc. and an uptick in the pace at which the cashcow planes move through its ...

At airports around the world, hundreds of aircraft are retired to desert graveyards every year. Many are dismantled for parts; others are left to rust. What if these could get a second chance on the ...

A decision to retool provides the opportunity to redesign parts for more streamlined processing. When laminate and core schemes are re-engineered, more consistent layups result. Parts consolidation ...

PANGKALAN BUN — Indonesian search teams believe a sonar scan has detected the fuselage of an AirAsia airliner that crashed two weeks ago with the loss of all 162 people on board and divers were on ...