A partnership between the Air Force Research Laboratory and industry could help usher in a new era of advanced aircraft assembly. Testing performed by AFRL showed promising results for the use of ...

According to Airbus, w-DED is increasingly being used at its factories and is helping the company progress to a more ...

On November 28, 2023, a stakeholder event with around 100 participants took place in the context of the “Multi Functional Fuselage Demonstrator” (“MFFD”) at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing ...

Aerospace structures form the backbone of modern air and spacecraft, where an intricate balance between material performance, structural design and manufacturing precision is essential. These ...

This blog gives an update to the Clean Sky 2 Multifunctional Fuselage Demonstrator (MFFD), which has changed somewhat from my last writing in 2018. One of three large fuselage demonstrators to be ...

The new line in Hamburg, Germany, combines fuselage shells into sections, and assembles individual sections into aircraft fuselages. Airbus inaugurated an automated fuselage-structure assembly line ...

A350 XWB aft fuselage (for MSN1) assembled in Hamburg. Photo by H. Jansen, courtesy, Airbus Airbus has completed structural assembly of the first A350 XWB aft fuselage of aircraft MSN1, which will be ...

The compatibility of efficiency, sustainability, and ergonomic workplace design is currently one of the greatest challenges in large-scale structure assembly, which is particularly relevant in ...

Airbus has completed the structural assembly the first A380 for Japan’s Skymark Airlines. The aircraft has moved to the next station at the Final Assembly Line in Toulouse where it will undergo ...

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 ...