Aviation authorities are investigating why an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 jet lost a door-sized section of its fuselage six minutes after takeoff from Portland, Oregon, a failure that critically ...

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 ...

Boeing remains on track for the final body join of the first stretched 747 next month by completing assembly of the forward fuselage of the initial 747-8 Freighter, RC501. The 89 ft., 2 in., fuselage ...

The day a piece of fuselage blew off a Boeing 737 MAX 9 midflight, Alaska Airlines engineers and technicians had scheduled a maintenance check for that aircraft. The plane — which was on a flight from ...

The fuselage section will now undergo its secondary interior structural assembly and system installation before being delivered to the A350 XWB final assembly line in Toulouse (France). Airbus has ...

This success marks the completion of the 19 months strength research and static fatigue test project on the C919 aircraft composite rear fuselage, one of C919 seven components. C919 composite aircraft ...

Airbus believes there will be no impact on A350 aircraft deliveries after a fire damaged equipment at its Illescas plant south of Madrid. The fire broke out on 25 March in one of the production halls.

Assembly of aft fuselage sections of the Yakovlev MC-21-310 has commenced at the Sokol plant in Nizhny Novgorod, initiating a duplicate line for the structure. The structures – which anchor the ...

Work is progressing on the new Airbus A350 XWB. Airbus partner, Spirit AeroSystems, has completed the curing of one of the panels that make up the longest section of the A350 XWB's all carbon fibre ...

A left door plug that expelled from an Alaska Airlines flight had disengaged from the fuselage, "allowing it to blow out," the National Transportation Safety Board said late Monday, offering further ...

Considering that theBoeing 787 was the first airliner to have an airframe primarily made from composite materials, and has been in service since 2011, it may puzzle readers to learn that the much ...