One of the primary achievements of the 787 Dreamliner design is its monocoque fuselage, which has internally integrated ...

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 ...

Together with Premium AEROTEC, Airbus and Aernnova, DLR has produced and successfully delivered an aircraft fuselage component made of carbon fibre-reinforced thermoplastic. Key technologies for the ...

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 ...

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 ...

ARLINGTON, Va., April 7 (UPI) -- Construction of the first fuselage of the U.S. Army's next-generation AH-64 Block III Apache helicopter has begun at a Boeing facility in Arizona. The first Block III ...

The fuselage is the principal structure of an aircraft and the part to which all other units attach. It supplies room for the crew, passengers, freight, accessories and other important equipment.

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 ...

Crews are installing CMU block and underlayment for the streamlined exterior skin of Raisbeck Aviation High School, which is under construction at the Museum of Flight's Airpark. The skin will be a ...