In October the Nine-O-Nine, a fully restored Boeing B-17G bomber owned and operated ... who was regarded as one of the most experienced B-17 pilots in the world. While the National Transportation ...

They were assembled at Boeing's Seattle plant and under license by Douglas in Santa Monica and Lockheed-Vega in Burbank, California. A low-wing, all-metal monoplane, the B-17 featured a 74-foot ...

With the 777x, Boeing is going to all the trouble to create such a long wing for one simple reason: it allows the plane to be more efficient as it flies. And the company has incorporated the ...

Rather than mating wing-skin panels and stringers by hand, a new assembly machine dubbed the Panel Assembly Line (PAL) will install rivets and fasteners via automation. Boeing says the 50-ton ...

Boeing has taken the wraps of its latest Transonic Truss-Braced Wing, a new configuration that the company says offers an unprecedented efficiency at Mach 0.80 speeds during flight. The new design ...

Elements of the concept can be seen in airplanes like the B-2 Spirit bomber and ... while the blended wing airplane remains on aviation's periphery. Boeing's Norm Princen is a believer.

The wing damage that grounded Boeing’s new composite 787 Dreamliner ... The damage at the end of each of the 17 long stiffening rods, called stringers, on each wing’s upper skin happened ...