Before Censys Technologies flies a Sentaero aircraft, it performs engineering work on the ground to ensure that the platform will perform every time. Recently, John Tillo and Dr. J. Gordon Leishman ...

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 ...

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

Boeing’s prolonged march toward certification of the 787 took another step forward Nov. 15 with the completion of destructive structural testing on a full-scale composite wing box. Although full scale ...

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 ...