SEATTLE (Reuters) - Boeing Co (BA.N) has started using a new automated system to build wing panels for 737 jetliners, an important step in preparing to hit record production speeds while introducing ...

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In-house production of the wings for the latest NXT variant of the Dornier 228 is under way at the facilities of type certificate holder General Atomics AeroTec Systems (GA-ATS) in Oberpfaffenhofen, ...

Russian airframer Irkut has received the first MC-21 wing panels for a serial production aircraft, delivered to the Irkutsk-based facility by road. The 17.5m panel was manufactured at the AeroKompozit ...

Almost two years before the Columbia disaster, NASA inspectors discovered a serious weakening of a shuttle's protective left-wing panel and ordered a fleet-wide inspection out of fear the problem ...

No passenger was hurt as a plane's wing panel came off as it landed in Hai Phong Thursday. On Thursday afternoon VJ722 from the central city of Da Nang landed at Cat Bi International Airport in ...

NASA is evaluating a new tool that has the potential to look through shuttle wings and can “see” subtle, potentially fatal defects invisible to current nondestructive testing and imaging systems.