For both the 787 and the A350, fuselage stringers are fabricated separately and then inserted into fixtures/slots in the fuselage skin tool. These are then overwrapped with unidirectional carbon fiber ...

From 2017-2019, Airbus Research & Technology (Bremen, Germany), as the MFFD project leader, issued 13 CS2 calls for proposal CfP07–CfP11 for work topics such as automated assembly plant for a ...

Airbus has inaugurated its highly automated fuselage structure assembly line for A320 Family aircraft in Hamburg, showcasing an evolution in Airbus’ industrial production system. With a special ...

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 ...

Airbus boosts automation for A320neo fuselage work By Alfred Chua 2019-10-02T03:08:00+01:00 The Airbus A320 family aircraft fuselage structure assembly line will get some help — in the form of ...

The Clean Sky 2 Multifunctional Fuselage Demonstrator (MFFD) with its 8.5 meter long composite-made fuselage section with 4 meter diameter gives a glimpse of what a next-generation aircraft could be.

Two fuselage demonstrators are being assembled at the Airbus plant in St Nazaire. The first, an 11m (36ft)-long barrel, will be rolled out towards the end of May with a larger, 18m-long version to ...

Ikuo Kumakura, Masakatsu Minegishi, Kazuo Iwasaki, Hirokazu Shoji, Hiromitsu Miyaki, Norio Yoshimoto, Hirofumi Sashikuma, Noriaki Katayama, Akira Isoe, Toru Hayashi, Toshihiro Yamaoka, Tetsuya Akaso, ...

Airbus inaugurated an automated fuselage-structure assembly line for A320 series narrow-body aircraft in Hamburg, Germany, including a new development for Airbus’ industrial production system. The new ...

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 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 ...

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.