As of January, nearly 1,300 F-35 stealth fighter jets have been delivered to the U.S. and its allies and partners.

That's because the ideal aircraft fuselage should be a seamless cylinder. Putting in windows violates the structural integrity of the hull, producing weak spots where stresses can concentrate. They ...

A frequently cited statistic for Boeing's newest clean-sheet aircraft, the 787 Dreamliner, is that it is composed of 50% ...

When aviation enthusiasts saw a new Boeing 747 variant roll out of the Everett factory in 1975, many did a double-take. From head-on, it had the familiar hump and four engines of the “Queen of the ...

PARIS, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Airbus (AIR.PA), opens new tab engineers have found defects on a wider set of A320 fuselage panels as they prepare to inspect hundreds of jets for a flaw that the company's ...

A research team at Drexel University's College of Engineering, led by Professors Ahmad R. Najafi, Jonathan Awerbuch, and Tein-Min Tan of mechanical engineering and mechanics, has developed a new way ...