A gigantic Russian Antonov carried the first Airbus A350 XWB composite fuselage section panels from Spirit AeroSystems’ plant in Kinston, N.C., where they were manufactured, to its plant in St ...

The most innovative aspect of the panel might be the design of the integrated skin and stringers, which represents a significant departure from traditional composite fuselage skin/stringer ...

Airbus has started test-flying a carbon-fibre reinforced plastic fuselage panel intended to become a standard structural component of the A350. The airframer has replaced a regular aluminium ...

Boeing said in March that it was in talks to acquire fuselage maker Spirit AeroSystems. The deal comes after a big leadership ...

The setback to the A350F comes as Airbus also struggles to increase output of existing A350 passenger jets, particularly due to ongoing delays in the arrival of fuselage parts from Spirit ...

After the completion of this transaction, Airbus will assume ownership of the Spirit assets at the Kinston site in North Carolina, U.S. (A350 fuselage sections), the St. Nazaire site in France ...

Two key plants involved in the transfer are Kinston, in North Carolina, where Spirit (SPR) makes a crucial part of the A350 fuselage, and a plant in Belfast, Northern Ireland, which makes carbon ...

Airbus, which is currently testing its own jetliner with a composite fuselage, the A350, stuck with the conventional panel method. Last month, we asked A350 communication manager Eric Ezell why ...

The copper foil sits between the paint and the carbon fuselage to protect the aircraft from lightning strikes. According to Airbus, the company started "progressively" using PCF on A350 aircraft ...

The setback to the A350F comes as Airbus also struggles to increase output of existing A350 passenger jets, particularly due to ongoing delays in the arrival of fuselage parts from Spirit ...