The Boeing 787 is assembled in the US, but its parts come from nine countries. Here is what each one builds.
Riveting remains a cornerstone of aircraft structural assembly, providing a robust and reliable means of joining sheet-metal components in fuselage skins, wing panels and internal frames. The process ...
A350 XWB aft fuselage (for MSN1) assembled in Hamburg. Photo by H. Jansen, courtesy, Airbus Airbus has completed structural assembly of the first A350 XWB aft fuselage of aircraft MSN1, which will be ...
Austria’s first Embraer C-390 tactical transport has entered the structural assembly process at the Brazilian airframer’s Gaviao Peixoto production facility. “We’re thrilled to start production… and ...
NASA spent months bending a 15-foot experimental aircraft wing, then kept increasing the load until the structure broke. The ...