The Airbus A350-1000 is 242 feet (73.78 m) long, which is seven meters longer than the Airbus A350-900. As you'd expect, this ...

There is no doubt that composites have earned their way into aerospace structure, as evidenced by The Boeing Co.’s (Chicago, IL, US) and Airbus’ (Toulouse, France) leap to composite wing and fuselage ...

Boeing said Thursday it successfully completed structural testing this week of a 787 Dreamliner fuselage section in its Everett factory. The large barrel-shaped section, made from carbon-fiber ...

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 ...

Military cargo planes use a high-wing configuration, which allows cargo to be easily loaded, maximizes storage space, and ...

The KEPLER project aims to develop an innovative and environmentally friendly manufacturing solution for the fuselage structure of a climate-neutral, electric aircraft. The focus is on the production ...

The fuselage comes together as four main structural elements, including the nose section; forward fuselage barrel; centre fuselage with an upper section cutout for the wing to fuselage join; and ...

Glyn and his crew started with the fuselage, the most intricate part of the build, consisting of two vertical body halves made up of three layers of wood. These two crucial pieces began with Glyn ...

Using the F-104 fuselage structure, but lengthening it by 30 inches to 57.2 ft to provide extra internal fuel capacity, the Lancer would also be constructed using titanium alloy in some of the ...

CRASHWORTHINESS NASA Langley Research Center has drop-tested a full-scale eVTOL air taxi fuselage, with better results than ...

Boeing has completed structural assembly of the fuselage for its prototype Loyal Wingman combat UAV. Designed to operate alongside other UAVs and manned combat aircraft, the jet-powered drone is ...