Robots may build cars by the millions, but they still don't have much to do with assembling airliners – a task where human workers are still essential. To give the organics a helping manipulator, the ...

A partnership between the Air Force Research Laboratory and industry could help usher in a new era of advanced aircraft assembly. Testing performed by AFRL showed promising results for the use of ...

Up to now, aircraft have been put together in huge assembly cells, but to build the necessary facilities is expensive and time-consuming. That is why researchers have come up with a flexible ...

BENGALURU, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Boeing (BA.N), opens new tab signalled on Monday it would need more orders from India before it considers setting up a final civil aircraft assembly line there, ...

De Havilland Canada has revealed plans to build a massive new manufacturing site near Calgary where it will assemble aircraft including its newly launched DHC-515 water bomber. The Canadian ...

The twin-engine A320 is the world’s best-selling commercial aircraft. Airbus S.A. has inaugurated a new aircraft assembly line in Tianjin, China, for its top-selling A320 series of narrow-body ...

NASA's X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST) supersonic X-plane has passed its final development milestone and is going on to final assembly. Designed to advance technologies for the next ...

Boeing is preparing to learn Thursday whether 33,000 aircraft assembly workers, most of them in the Seattle area, are going on strike and shutting down production of the company's best-selling planes.

On Monday, Boeing Co. (NYSE:BA) stated that it would require a significant increase in orders from India before establishing a final civil aircraft assembly line in the country. “The business case for ...

Embraer has completely overhauled its final assembly operations for the E-170 and E-190 family of aircraft, switching from a slant assembly to a pulsing assembly line. The now two-month-old ...

Airbus executives confirmed Monday that it will raise a third aircraft assembly line in Mobile over the next few years, but there’s more: 1,000 new jobs on the new line, with new training programs ...

Airbus said on Tuesday that it has launched the A321 fuselage system assembly work with Xi'an Aircraft International (Tianjin) Corporation (XAT), a subsidiary of AVIC Xi'an Aircraft Industry Group Co.