With all the excitement surrounding the upcomingBoeing 777X family of widebody aircraft, whose passenger variants are known as the 777-8 and 777-9, it can be easy to forget the fact that this series ...

Boeing officially began assembly work yesterday on the first 777 freighter, the sixth major model in the twinjet family, with the start of fabrication of one of the main wing spars now ‘loaded’ onto a ...

Umeco manufactured a suite of large-scale tooling mandrels for GKN Aerospace using Umeco’s tooling prepregs. GKN Aerospace uses these tools to produce Airbus A350XWB rear wing spars using advanced ...

An automated fiber placement machine has been used to lay down plies of composite material to create the first 777-8F wing spar. Credit: Marian Lockhart/Boeing Boeing has begun construction of the ...

Joby Aviation, in cooperation with A&P Technology, Toray Advanced Composites and NIAR, recently conducted a time study comparing layup of a partial wing spar using traditional woven prepreg and ...