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Long before the Air India tragedy, the cause of which is still to be determined, people who had worked on the 787 had raised ...
It was developing the gargantuan A380 superjumbo – a machine tailor-made for carrying as many ... have been due to Boeing's ...
Defence Secretary Sanjeev Kumar and HAL Chairman and Managing Director D.K. Sunil will be present when Hyderabad-based VEM Technologies will be handing over the ‘Centre Fuselage Assembly’ of ...
Four of these QuadBot machines, built in Mukilteo, can complete fastening a 787 fuselage section in a bit over three days.
See, the only way that you could guarantee the tolerance that would allow almost a flawless joint on a fuselage barrel is to machine every single join across, and when you're talking about ...
Boeing Pushes Back on Whistleblower Allegations on Airframe Assembly Flaws The company details how airframes are put together as Congress probes issues with the 787 Dreamliner.
The whistle-blower, an engineer, says that sections of the plane’s body are being assembled in a way that could weaken the aircraft over time. Boeing says there is no safety issue.
Rheinmetall AG will build a new plant at Weeze, Germany, to manufacture F-35A fuselage sections at a rate of 400 per year by 2025. As the production rate for the fighter aircraft is due to rise in the ...
STUNNING project successfully develops 8.5-meter thermoplastic fuselage skin Clean Sky 2 project under the MFFD program produces two segments of an 8.5-meter-long, 4-meter-diameter thermoplastic ...
Richard Austin, who oversees construction of the back portion of the 787 at Boeing South Carolina continues, “The outside, or fuselage, is composite.
Boeing will speed up the consolidation of 787 production in South Carolina so that Everett, Washington, will lose final assembly of the airplane by March rather than the originally announced ...
Boeing Co. has expanded inspections of newly produced 787 Dreamliners after finding a previously disclosed manufacturing defect in sections of the jet where it hadn’t been initially detected ...