German arms maker Rheinmetall has completed a factory that will make a central fuselage section of the F-35 stealth combat aircraft, with production set to start within days, chief executive Armin ...

Boeing remains on track for the final body join of the first stretched 747 next month by completing assembly of the forward fuselage of the initial 747-8 Freighter, RC501. The 89 ft., 2 in., fuselage ...

Spirit AeroSystems intends to automate some aspects of its Boeing 737 Max fuselage production in a bid to improve quality, though the decades-old design of the narrowbody jet will limit the degree of ...

WICHITA — It takes more than 200,000 fasteners to hold a Boeing 737 together, and many of them are installed manually by mechanics at Spirit AeroSystems. "You can run your finger down and feel how ...

Dassault Aviation has signed several agreements with Tata Advanced Systems for the company to build Rafale fuselages in India. The package of measures would see Tata establish a production facility in ...

Airbus agreed to acquire some Spirit AeroSystems facilities that make parts for its jets, moving to take direct control of production in a bid to stabilize supply chains after months of disruption.

Assembly of aft fuselage sections of the Yakovlev MC-21-310 has commenced at the Sokol plant in Nizhny Novgorod, initiating a duplicate line for the structure. The structures – which anchor the ...

Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury confirmed that discussions are scheduled now with Spirit AeroSystems to determine how the aircraft builder can secure its continuing supply of aerostructures after the ...

NEW DELHI / HYDERABAD : In a major boost to India’s defence manufacturing sector, French aviation giant Dassault Aviation has joined hands with Tata Advanced Systems Ltd (TASL) to build a dedicated ...

A Boeing quality engineer went public Tuesday with damaging allegations that the jet-maker took manufacturing shortcuts to increase production rates that led to potentially serious structural flaws on ...

At a U.S. Senate hearing last month, a Boeing whistleblower claimed that small gaps in Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner could cause a catastrophic accident. The following week at the 787 assembly plant in ...