Riveting remains a cornerstone of aircraft structural assembly, providing a robust and reliable means of joining sheet-metal components in fuselage skins, wing panels and internal frames. The process ...

The ETH Zurich student team’s H2-Sling aircraft, featuring a hydrogen fuel cell system with Type 4 carbon fiber tanks, awaits Swiss regulatory clearance for a maiden flight ahead of a planned crossing ...

Boeing is divesting Wisk Aero, Insitu and SkyGrid to Archer while retaining a stake in the company, a strategic move that lets Boeing refocus on its core businesses, help shape future autonomous ...

Researchers from the Belgorod State University (BSU) and the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) studied aluminum alloys at the atomic level and found patterns that will help ...

Aerospace structures encompass the load-bearing frameworks, skins and mechanisms that give aircraft and spacecraft their form, stiffness and strength while meeting stringent mass, reliability and ...

Aviation changed the course of history by giving man the ability to fly. This amazing feat is a result of components of an aircraft’s frame referred to as aerostructures. Aerostructures provide ...

A troubling string of incidents involving aircraft window failures has caught public attention over the past few weeks, including one where the cockpit windshield of a Sichuan Airlines A319 blew out ...

With the completion of the project TOAST (ThermOplast Additive Manufacturing STrukturen), Premium AEROTEC present the impressive potential which a modern hybrid design of carbon fibre reinforced ...

iSurface, a project led by Munro Technology, Z Prime, Axalp Technologies AG and researchers from Swiss university of applied sciences FHNW (Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz), unveiled a new intelligent ...

The turbulent air above a wildfire is punishing to aircraft structures. The excessive and frequent loads place an inordinate number of loading cycles on an aircraft, leading to accelerated crack ...

Test Video Shows Interesting Structural Capabilities of Advanced Aircraft Like B-2. This remarkable video of a Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit stealth bomber undergoing wing flutter testing on June 14, ...

The radome on this Fokker F100 suffered significant damage, losing its structural integrity. Credit: Poland State Commission on Aircraft Accident Investigation Aircraft radomes are precisely ...