As part of the EU’s Clean Sky 2 initiative, the aerospace industry is looking for flight path to sustainability. The Clean Sky 2 Multifunctional Fuselage Demonstrator (MFFD) with its 8.5 meter long ...

Within Clean Sky’s Airframe ITD Programme, part of the work is devoted to automated and human/robot collaborative systems for manufacturing, inspection and assembly processes for composites ...

An American defense company has revealed that the world’s most advanced fighter jet’s manufacturing could be easily sped up. Northrop Grumman has employed advanced manufacturing technologies to ...

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, prompting ...

BAE Systems has built a representative forward fuselage for the Tempest/Future Combat Air System (FCAS) to explore advanced manufacturing capabilities. Dave Holmes, manufacturing director at BAE, ...

Saab has shipped its first aft fuselage section for an engineering and manufacturing development (EMD)-phase example of the US Air Force’s Boeing T-7A Red Hawk advanced jet trainer. Produced at Saab’s ...

Boeing has expanded the scope of its examination of 787 Dreamliners after finding more widespread instances of a manufacturing quality defect initially thought confined to the aircraft’s aft fuselage ...