Vought and Alenia will build more than 60 percent of the 787 fuselage. Two new plants about 200 yards apart have been built for production and assembly of 787 fuselage sections.

Spirit AeroSystems employees look over the first Boeing 787 Dream Liner all-composit developmental nose section after its rollout, complete with fireworks and smoke machines, in the Spirit ...

Despite the aerospace tax breaks passed in Washington state to secure the first 787 final-assembly line, Risley said he didn't even consider Everett for the fuselage-section plants that ended up ...

The front tool is used to join section 41 to the mid-fuselage assembly, while the aft joins sections 47 and 48 to the rest of the fuselage.

During 787 assembly, before the point where all the fuselage sections and wings are joined to make the complete airframe, the fuselage sections are held in place by cradles.

Boeing strongly denied Salehpour’s allegations. “These claims about the structural integrity of the 787 are inaccurate,” the company told HuffPost in an emailed statement.

Four of these QuadBot machines, built in Mukilteo, can complete fastening a 787 fuselage section in a bit over three days.

During 787 assembly, before the point where all the fuselage sections and wings are joined to make the complete airframe, the fuselage sections are held in place by cradles.

The large assembly site contains an 8 x 20m autoclave, a shear-tie-fastening machine and a panel fastening device for the fuselage. Fabrication facilities ...

AIT also builds equipment essential to the assembly of the fuselage. In both capacities, say suppliers that have worked with Plano, Texas-based AIT, the company is struggling to fulfill its ...

The two factories planted here to build big Boeing 787 Dreamliner fuselage sections began as a disastrous experience in outsourcing. Their incomplete work played ...