Boeing has begun production of the highly anticipated Boeing 777-8F, as it manufactured the first spar - a long beam that ...

Boeing has begun work on the wings for its new generation 777-8 freighter ahead of its revised entry to market date of 2028 ...

The exact airfoil shape of a wing has a massive effect on the performance and efficiency of an aircraft and will be selected based on the intended flight envelope. If you’re moving beyond foa… ...

Scott Thompson of AeroVintage shares the latest restoration updates on the Erickson Aircraft Collection's three B-17s in Madras, Oregon, focusing on pioneering wing spar replacements and fuselage ...

Wing fences are small metal vanes that once graced the wings of early jets. Here's why they have since disappeared from ...

The FAA said it is working to determine if an aircraft part found in a Raleigh driveway belongs to a Delta 737.

Two years after the world's largest jetliner rolled out of its Toulouse factory for the last time, Airbus is preparing to bring some A380 superjumbos back to their birthplace for wing inspections ...

One-piece, one-shot, 17-meter wing spar for high-rate aircraft manufacture GKN Aerospace has spent the last five years developing materials strategies and resin transfer molding (RTM) for an aircraft ...

The operator chose to repair, rather than replace, the wing spar as recommended by the manufacturer. An inspection failed to detect the crack, according to the NTSB.

But pterosaurs primarily had one finger to support their wings. Their main wing was composed of a single giant “spar” – a structural unit – made of up of the bones of the arm and the ...