A detailed technical examination of the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, exploring its structure, wing design, turbo-supercharging ...

In the LuFo project CREVAD (2012-2014), the Institute of Structures and Design jointly worked together with the project partners Airbus and EADS-Innovation Works. The research activities were funded ...

Boeing said Thursday it successfully completed structural testing this week of a 787 Dreamliner fuselage section in its Everett factory. The large barrel-shaped section, made from ...

Since the day aviation innovators first imagined aircraft constructed of aluminum rather than wood nearly a century ago, the basic design of the commercial aircraft fuselage has been circular in cross ...

Engine technology may be key to realising the Skylon space plane, but its airframe is also critical, and possibly just as ambitious. The 87m (285ft) long design, with 25m wingspan, calls for fuselage ...

Already verified as the fastest and highest-flying small business jet — 420 knots/483 mph and a ceiling of 43,000 feet/13,106 meters, respectively — Honda Aircraft Co.’s (Greensboro, N.C.) HondaJet ...

Boeing got an unexpected jolt in September when engineers in Everett put the new 777X airframe through an extreme test of its structural strength. Just as the test approached its target stress level, ...

Saab’s internal innovation start-up The Rainforest will fly an unmanned platform next year employing what it describes as “the world’s first software-defined aircraft fuselage”. “The fuselage, at over ...

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 ...