In light of new findings, Airbus is conducting inspections on 16 A380 superjumbos due to cracks discovered in a vital wing ...

June 24 (Reuters) - Airbus said on Wednesday it was supporting inspections on a subset of A380 aircraft after Europe's ...

The European Union Aviation Safety Agency is asking some operators of Airbus SE A380 jets to perform additional inspections ...

EASA has ordered wing mid-spar inspections on 16 A380 after cracks were found, including 15 Emirates aircraft and one Qantas ...

Airbus on Tuesday said it would inspect 16 A380 planes, five of them immediately, after cracks were found in a key wing ...

Bell completed the wing structures for the first two MV-75 Cheyenne II tiltrotors, which will soon join fuselage and engine nacelles currently progressing through assembly. Bell has announced that it ...

The issue primarily affects Emirates, which operates 15 of the 16 aircraft identified for inspection and remains the world’s ...

Airplanes don't need their wings to be symmetrical to take to the skies. At first, planes were designed with perpendicular wings to the plane's fuselage because every flying creature in nature ...

American defense contractor Bell Textron announced it has completed the first two wing structures for the first two MV-75 ...

The Breakthrough Laminar Aircraft Demonstrator in Europe (BLADE) project is part of the Clean Sky Smart Fixed Wing Aircraft (SWFA) programme, an extensive, 50% European Union-funded, multi-partner ...

Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company’s Advanced Development Programs sector is proposing a morphing wing design that can be locked into either an expanded or contracted position. Key to enabling this ...

Making the wings on passenger jets thinner and longer can go a long way toward reducing drag and making them more efficient, but they vibrate like crazy. Engineers at NASA and Boeing are now tackling ...