Boeing has completed major assembly on the first set of wings for its 747-8 aircraft, which will be part of a freighter airframe.
The 747-8 will have a wing span of 68.5m (224ft 7in). Boeing says the newly-completed wing sections have a length of 41.2m.
Seventy-eight 747-8 freighters are on firm order, in addition to 28 examples of the passenger version.
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Source: Flight International
One of Boeing’s 777-9 test aircraft returned to the skies on 16 January, ending a four-month grounding of the 777-9 test fleet and indicating some progress in Boeing’s effort to conclude the type’s long-delayed certification programme.
French aerospace company Daher is one step closer to assembling TBM and Kodiak turboprops at its manufacturing site in Florida after securing a new lease on the facility.
The Federal Aviation Administration plans to order airlines to inspect Boeing 787s because the jets might have defective seat-track hardware due to manufacturing errors.
