This 1.2- x 0.7-meter carbon fiber/PAEK challenge panel features prefabricated stringers fused to a skin that was simultaneously consolidated using a solid lower tool with cavities for stringers and a ...

Robot-based continuous ultrasonic welding will be used to integrate the stringers on the upper half of the MFFD. Photo Credit: German Aerospace Center (DLR) Reduced fuel emissions and energy ...

Joggle Press operator Rich Harrison prepares the first 737 MAX fuselage stringer for the press by brushing on lubricant. Photo: Boeing [Avionics Today 10-14-2014] Boeing has started production of the ...

Stringers are attached to the fuselage skin using a robot to weld the thermoplastic composites. Credit: German Aerospace Center DLR A fuselage upper shell made of thermoplastic composites has been ...

Airbus will roll out the first of two carbonfibre fuselage demonstrator barrels this month as it prepares the ground for production of the A350 XWB. The A350 fuselage's structural design comprises ...

Boeing’s technical problems with the 787 Dreamliner go beyond the upper wing join issue publicly acknowledged by the company. Engineers have discovered wrinkles in the fuselage skin just behind the ...

Boeing has started production of the first 737 MAX fuselage stringers at Boeing Fabrication Integrated AeroStructures in Auburn, Washington. Stringers run the length of the fuselage structure giving ...