Boeing has completed the ultimate load wing-bend test on the 787 static test airframe (ZY997) at its plant in Everett, Washington. The airframer says that it applied loads to replicate 150% of the ...

Formula One has arrived at the Spanish Grand Prix, where the long-awaited revisions to the front wing load and deflection tests are in operation for the first time this season. Reading the room it ...

Airbus is nearing several key milestones on its UK-led Wing of Tomorrow programme, with the third fully-equipped demonstrator now in build and the project’s second asset ready to begin destructive ...

The upcoming test campaign at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center (AFRC) is the culmination of the program that included ...

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 ...