ALTHOUGH THE BOEING CO.'s 787 Dreamliner has been beset by a series of embarrassing delays that have now stretched more than a year and a half, engineers accomplished a significant structural ...

The full-sized wing developed and built for AeroVironment's unmanned, high-altitude Global Observer has successfully completed wing load testing, the company says. The tests demonstrate the integrity ...

Airbus reported today that it had successfully performed the ultimate load test of the A350 XWB's wing in December 2013, applying loads up to 1.5 times higher than those the aircraft would ever ...

The Wing of an Airbus 380 airliner "ruptured" during ultimate load testing last week, before reaching the desired structural benchmark. In what was to be the final of about a dozen static tests, the ...

The amount of testing required for a brand new aircraft type is tremendous, and that's a good thing. Take a look at the Boeing 787, for example. It's the first commercial aircraft built primarily from ...

Boeing plans to flex the 787 static test airframe's wing to ultimate load flex test on 28 March, the company confirms. The wing of the static test airframe - dubbed ZY997 - will be slowly flexed to ...

Structural testing is a crucial process for validating the integrity, safety, and durability of materials and finished ...