- Alenia Aeronautica: First 787 Fuselage Sections Delivered.
GROTTAGLIE, Italy -- Alenia Aeronautica, a Finmeccanica company, today delivered the first carbon fibre fuselage sections of the 787 Dreamliner, manufactured at its Grottaglie plant. The two fuselage sections, the central one, no. 44 (8,5 metres long) and the central-rear one, no. 46 (about 10 metres long) have been loaded ......
- USD560m aircraft complex to be built in South
Carolina.
AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Italian manufacturer Alenia Aeronautica and the US-based Vought Aircraft Industries Inc have announced a USD560m aircraft complex to be built in South Carolina. The new 880-acre complex near the state's Charleston International Airport will be used to build fuselage for Boeing's new 7E7 Dreamliner ......
- Hawley Named Exclusive U.S. Distributor for Storck
LEXINGTON, SC (BRAIN)¿The Hawley Company has signed a multi-year exclusive agreement to market and distribute Storck Bicycle frames in the United States. Storck Bicycle is a high-end German frame manufacturer.
- Demand Surge Tightens PEEK Supply.
New Suppliers Ease the Crunch * A high degree of uncertainty plagues molders and end-users of polyketone engineering polymers, key candidates for replacing metals in semiconductor manufacturing, energy production, and chemical-processing equipment. The immediate concern is short supply of polyetheretherketone (PEEK) resin, whose sole commercial-scale producer is Victrex PLC in ......
- Boeing’s Brave New World of Product Development
Alenia Aeronautica, Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. and Spirit Aerosystems Inc. — These heavy-hitters are not just building the fuselage or wing box on The Boeing Co.’s ( http://rbi.ims.ca/5393-607 ) Dreamliner 787 airplane. This trio of suppliers, along with 40 other global partners, is taking part in a ground-breaking development effort....
- Fiber Placement System Produces One-Piece Fuselage
A VIPER 1200 CNC fiber placement system and off-line composite programming system supplied by Cincinnati Machine, which is part of Cincinnati Lamb (Hebron, KY) have been used to produce a one-piece carbon-fiber fuselage developed by a consortium of European firms. Measuring 4.5-m long by 2-m at its widest point, the ......
- Fuselages the FAST way
News A 69-ft composite fuselage and tail section of Raytheon Aircraft's new super midsized jet, the Hawker Horizon, traveled by overhead crane from a Fuselage Automated Splicing Tool (FAST) to its next assembly station. The three sections of the Horizon fuselage are joined by aluminum splice plates, which act as ......