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

This was the Boeing 747SP, a rare moment in airliner history when a manufacturer decided that the route to more range was fewer airplanes. Only 45 were built, but the Special Performance jumbo pushed ...

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 ...

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

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 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 ...

A research team at Drexel University's College of Engineering, led by Professors Ahmad R. Najafi, Jonathan Awerbuch, and Tein-Min Tan of mechanical engineering and mechanics, has developed a new way ...

At first glance, a flyable airplane made of cardboard sounds almost like a joke – the sort of thing that collapses long ...