• The brittleness of the plastic material from which the 787 fuselage is built would create a more severe impact shock to passengers than an aluminum plane, which absorbs impact in a crash by ...

The 33-foot prototype of a section of the 787’s fuselage was supposed to be used as part of efforts to gain Federal […] Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 53°F.

All 787 fuselage sections, regardless of supplier, are fabricated as barrels on a metallic or composite mandrel with prepregged carbon fiber applied via automated fiber placement (AFP). The prepreg, ...

Spirit AeroSystems celebrated completion of its 100th Boeing 787-8 composite fuselage section at an employee event on Tuesday. ... One of the challenges was working with composite materials.

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner has successfully completed a series of tests revealing how the composite barrel design ... It features an all-composite fuselage, and its materials by weight are 50% ...

Boeing must prove 787 materials are safe. 2007-05-01T00:00:00+01:00. ... There are currently no standards for in-flight fire propagation with respect to an aluminium fuselage, ...

EVERETT, Wash. -- Boeing Co. says the stress tests for its new 787 jetliner's wing and fuselage went as planned. On March 28, workers at Boeing's Everett, Wash., plant bent the wing of a special ...

Boeing has expanded its examination of 787 Dreamliners after finding more widespread instances of a defect initially thought confined to the aircraft’s aft fuselage plant in South Carolina, p… ...

Leonardo will build fuselage for certification fleet However, the pact could be expanded to “scale fuselage production to 2,000 aircraft per year” to meet current market demand for the VX4.

WASHINGTON — A fire that broke out last week in a Boeing 787 Dreamliner could have been hot enough to melt the carbon-fiber reinforced plastic that makes up the plane’s shell, according to the ...

It’s got to be making Bombardier a bit nervous. There has already been a problem with the fuselage of Boeing Co.’s new 787 (Dreamliner). The company disclosed Sunday that it would examine its ...

In the composite-plastic 787, by contrast, the lower fuselage is shattered, with multiple holes. And the passenger floor has broken away from the fuselage and collapsed, leaving passengers with ...