Passenger aircraft doors are still primarily manufactured by hand. A particularly time-consuming aspect is assembling the door structures using screws and rivets. Numerous intermediate steps are ...

Latecoere’s Elcocos project for aircraft doors targets faster manufacturing and the use of fewer raw materials. Credit: Latecoere/Motion Palace With weight savings at the top of the list for any ...

Boeing confirms it is completing rework to structures surrounding aft passenger and cargo doors on some in-production 787s, a move that involves holding up some areas of 787 assembly. The company has ...

Airbus has yet to fit the main-deck cargo door to its initial A350F test aircraft but is expecting to take delivery of the assembly early next year. While much of the airframe for MSN700 – fuselage, ...