Fleet Readiness Center East at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point is set to become one of only two sites in the world to use laser technology to strengthen aircraft structural components. The ...

Wickert Machinenbau, a German company producing complex, fully automated systems integrated in its hydraulic presses, launches a new thermoforming press dedicated to the production of aircraft ...

The application of tailored NDT techniques across all major aircraft components ensures that the most effective inspection ...

After obtaining the China’s large aircraft body supplier qualification in 2009, Xizi Aviation, Zhejiang’s first aviation parts manufacturing base began to enter operational materiality and recently ...

In an industry as large and competitive as the aeronautical business, production optimization and efficiency are imperative. This need for production advancements is intensified further by increasing ...

The "structural health monitoring" system uses a network of devices that could be attached to, or embedded in, an aircraft or vehicle. Some of the devices, called actuators, send out high-frequency ...

The application of new materials and structures technology in commercial transport aircraft depends on a number of interrelated considerations. This part of the report describes trends and forecasts ...

Bombardier has started manufacturing major structural components for the first production example of its ultra-long-range Global 8000, a business jet that is set to succeed the Global 7500 as the ...