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 ...

A UK developed demonstrator aircraft, which will be used to inform the joint Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP), has been ...

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

Design Results: 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Airbus's Spanish facilities in Cadiz and Getafe have produced the first horizontal stabiliser for the A350 freighter. The ...

Ameco Beijing started the world’s first A340 fuselage structural change. The company said the fuselage modification involves reinforcing the skin at six connectors between the vertical ...

Boeing has expanded its examination of 787 Dreamliners after finding more widespread instances of a defect initially thought confined to the aircraft’s aft fuselage plant in South Carolina ...

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 ...

Two of Lufthansa Cargo’s four Airbus A321Fs have been grounded, due to a single fine crack found on the rear fuselage structure of the two freighters, the company tells Aviation Daily.