DULLES, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Orbital ATK, Inc. (NYSE: OA), a global leader in aerospace and defense technologies, and Airbus Americas today celebrated a significant milestone in their successful ...

Behind heavy doors to a spacious room inside Spirit AeroSystems’ engineering building, inventors work on a variety of projects. Their goal is to create better manufacturing processes, reduce weight, ...

SEATTLE – The wing damage that grounded Boeing’s new composite 787 Dreamliner occurred under less stress than previously reported – and is more extensive. An engineer familiar with the details said ...

Airbus SAS and ATK Aerospace Group finalized an agreement concering manufacturing and supply of composite stringers and frames for the –1000 variant of the A350 XWB commercial jet program. In a ...

ATK ATK announced today that Airbus Military has selected ATK for a contract in excess of $100 million to produce composite wing cover stringers for use on the A400M Military Transport Aircraft. The ...

“Seeing the first real piece of the structure is terrific,” said Strode as he closely inspected the large, black composite skin section with its co-bonded stringers. FHI had completed work on the ...

Thermoplastic composites in aircraft structure have long been scrutinized, because this class of materials has the potential for fast forming, weldability, inherently superior fatigue performance and ...

Boeing has started fabrication work on the vertical fin for the 787, which will be the largest major assembly part to be built in-house. Fabrication of the first composite stringers for the vertical ...

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd (MHI) will make investments for production facilities for the 787 composite wing box at Shimonoseki Shipyard & Machinery Works (Shimonoseki) and Nagoya Aerospace ...

In the Clean Sky 2 IIAMS project, MTorres produced a 4-meter-long outer torque box without fasteners using vacuum bag-only resin infusion for both left and right wings of a C-295 turboprop ...