Stelia Aerospace believes 3D printing has the potential to go large when it comes to aircraft construction. The French-based company has unveiled the first printed self-reinforcing fuselage panel in ...

Ironically, as soon as the F-35A is completed and enters service, it will be returned to the United States for pilot training.

A Spirit AeroSystems employee looks at a Boeing 787 forward fuselage. The union that represents engineers and technical workers at Spirit AeroSystems is checking into whether some of its members are ...

Boeing plans to deploy robotic assembly technology on the 777X that will dramatically change the way the plane’s metal hull is built, documents submitted to the city of Everett indicate. The ...

SAE Transactions, Vol. 98, Section 1: JOURNAL OF AEROSPACE (1989), pp. 71-84 (14 pages) Graphite-epoxy floor sections representative of aircraft fuselage construction were statically and dynamically ...

New Delhi: Airbus Helicopters has awarded a contract to Mahindra Aerostructures Pvt Ltd. (MASPL) to manufacture the main fuselage of its H125 helicopter, marking a strengthening of the collaboration ...

THE monocoque type of fuselage construction seems to promise satisfaction of the three requisites of prime importance; namely, high strength-weight ratio, "streamlined" form, and unobstructed interior ...

Airbus has decided on a raft of revisions to the configuration of its A350 XWB family, including the adoption of a new nose shape and changes to the structural make-up of the fuselage. Proposals ...