Aerospace

Potential problem found on Boeing 787 Dreamliner

Boeing has revealed today that around 55 of its flagship 787 Dreamliners “have the potential” to develop a fuselage shimming problem, but reiterated that the fault was being fixed. Shims are used to fill in space ...

Published : 22 Feb 2012 9:24am by Tim Brown View Article

Management Lecture to feature Boeing UK president Sir Roger Bone

Sir Roger Bone, UK president of aerospace company Boeing, will be speaking at the annual Sheffield Management Lecture, which this year will also launch the city’s Global Manufacturing Festival. During this free management lecture, which ...

Published : 21 Feb 2012 3:16pm by Roberto Priolo View Article

Foreign Office Minister Jeremy Browne - photo courtesy Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Minister and EEF chief economist added to Global Manufacturing Festival bill

Jeremy Browne MP, minister of state at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, is the latest guest speaker to be announced for the Global Manufacturing Festival. He will speak to more than 400 delegates at the ...

Published : 21 Feb 2012 2:09pm by Roberto Priolo View Article

An Airbus A380 trialling the new Rolls-Royce Trent XWB engine over the alps

New Rolls-Royce Trent XWB completes first test flight on A380

The Rolls-Royce Trent XWB engine has taken to the skies for the first time, powering an Airbus A380 test aircraft in Toulouse, France. The aircraft flew with one of its four Trent 900 engines replaced by a ...

Published : 21 Feb 2012 10:43am by Tim Brown View Article

Airbus A380 Final Assembly Line in the Jean-Luc Lagardere plant at Toulouse, France.

Further woes for Airbus A380 as rivets called into question

The European Aviation Safety Agency is considering issuing an airworthiness directive ordering Airbus to replace six aluminium rivets in the fuselage of the A380 due to concerns they may have unsatisfactory tolerance levels. In a ...

Published : 20 Feb 2012 5:04pm by Tim Brown View Article

Scottish manufacturers achieve industry excellence awards

Eight Scottish manufacturers have won SC21 Bronze accreditation in recognition of their outstanding quality and customer satisfaction levels. The awards took place at a UK-wide Supply Chain 21 (SC21) conference at the Scottish headquarters defence ...

Published : 15 Feb 2012 12:47pm by Tom Moore View Article