German arms maker Rheinmetall has completed a factory that will make a central fuselage section of the F-35 stealth combat aircraft, with production set to start within days, chief executive Armin ...

A frequently cited statistic for Boeing's newest clean-sheet aircraft, the 787 Dreamliner, is that it is composed of 50% ...

That's because the ideal aircraft fuselage should be a seamless cylinder. Putting in windows violates the structural integrity of the hull, producing weak spots where stresses can concentrate. They ...

PARIS, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Airbus (AIR.PA), opens new tab engineers have found defects on a wider set of A320 fuselage panels as they prepare to inspect hundreds of jets for a flaw that the company's ...

A rare jumbo jet with a production run closer to Concorde than other Boeing widebodies. What made the 747SP so unique?

A decommissioned Boeing 747 jumbo jet fuselage that was once used at Northern Nevada’s Burning Man festival taxied the streets of Las Vegas and North Las Vegas on Wednesday and successfully arrived at ...

The Boeing 747 has long been considered to be an icon in the passenger aviation sector, and this writer remembers having a cast-iron model of a British Airways 747 as a child. Among the many ...

In my two previous columns, I discussed the lower and intermediate levels of the building block approach for crashworthiness testing and analysis of composite structures. I focused on the commercial ...