On November 28, 2023, a stakeholder event with around 100 participants took place in the context of the “Multi Functional Fuselage Demonstrator” (“MFFD”) at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing ...

The crashworthiness of aircraft structures is a critical aspect of aerospace design, directly influencing occupant survivability and overall safety performance during impact events. This field ...

The Airbus A320 family aircraft fuselage structure assembly line will get some help — in the form of 20 robots. The airframer inaugurated the new “highly automated” assembly line for the narrowbody ...

As part of the EU-funded Clean Sky 2/Clean Aviation project “Large Passenger Aircraft” (“LPA”), the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft in Stade, Germany, together with international project partners, has joined ...

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 ...

German regional aircraft OEM Deutsche Aircraft and Indian aerostructures manufacturer Dynamatic Technologies have inaugurated the rear fuselage assembly line for the forthcoming 40-seat D328eco ...

Weight and cost reduction in the manufacturing processes and health monitoring of an aircraft fuselage are key to the competitiveness of Europe’s regional aircraft industry. Clean Sky’s Composite ...

Boeing Australia has completed assembly of the fuselage structure of the first ‘loyal wingman’ unmanned aircraft it is developing in partnership with the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). Boeing ...

A technology that can expedite the process of inspecting aircraft structures for cracks received FAA approval on March 3. While the supplemental type certificate (STC) applies to one specific ...

With speculation continuing about Boeing's plans for its future aircraft development programme, two reports now predict that the airframer's next clean-sheet design will feature the aviation novelty ...