One of the primary achievements of the 787 Dreamliner design is its monocoque fuselage, which has internally integrated ...

With the completion of the project TOAST (ThermOplast Additive Manufacturing STrukturen), Premium AEROTEC present the impressive potential which a modern hybrid design of carbon fibre reinforced ...

A seemingly simple question about fuselage length reveals deeper truths about these two modern widebody aircraft.

On November 28, 2023, a stakeholder event with around 100 participants took place in the context of the “Multi Functional Fuselage Demonstrator” (“MFFD”) at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing ...

The crashworthiness of aircraft structures is a critical aspect of aerospace design, directly influencing occupant survivability and overall safety performance during impact events. This field ...

Saab’s internal innovation start-up The Rainforest will fly an unmanned platform next year employing what it describes as “the world’s first software-defined aircraft fuselage”. “The fuselage, at over ...

The Clean Sky 2 Passenger Cabin Demonstrator features biocomposite interior panels plus myriad other components and systems, enabling a full suite of tests, such as those conducted at Fraunhofer ...

In 2022, NASA dropped an aircraft cabin (with six crash dummies) from 35 ft. The cabin was destroyed but showed the need to improve computer models. In 2022, NASA dropped a full-scale aircraft ...