Cal Fire has its own fleet of aircraft operating from 14 airfields and 11 helicopter bases across the state that can reach most fires within about 20 minutes.

Had Leonardo made the design change, altering the thread direction on a critical nut as it had on the AW139, the claim says ... Damage from the impact to the lower fuselage, parts of which were ...

Completion of the 8-meter-long thermoplastic composite (TPC) fuselage section comprised continuous ultrasonic welding of the MFFD’s right-hand (RH) longitudinal fuselage joint (left) and resistance ...

The accident left almost half of the aircraft’s fuselage burnt, although its wings and engines on both sides were undamaged, officials said. The cause of the fire is under investigation.

The design may be functional—but it’s not pretty. Relatedly, the X-32’s fuselage is unusually low-set and wide. Whereas most fighters feature sleek, elegant fuselages, the X-32’s fuselage ...

Drag-reducing riblets have been applied directly to the paint covering the fuselage of JAL’s Boeing 787-9. Credit: Japan Airlines A Japan Airlines (JAL) Boeing 787-9 with drag-reducing riblet ...

In one major Air Force research project, he developed a widebody fuselage that was adhesively bonded, without fasteners. Ogonowski said Hart-Smith produced designs with an eye to making them ...

Believed to be the largest aircraft currently flying anywhere in the world, Roc is a six-engined, dual fuselage, all-composite, over-wing design (registration N351SL) created by Scaled Composites ...

Hopes of retrieving the remaining bodies from the wrecks of an American Airlines passenger jet and an army Black Hawk helicopter sitting in the Potomac River in Washington prior to the fuselage’s ...

Boeing had a decent orderbook in December to cap a very bad year. But its deliveries for the month show it continues to struggle to rebound from the crippling strike earlier in the fall. The ...

But he added that the plane's fuselage will need to be removed from the Potomac River in order to access the rest of the remains. The weather in the D.C. area, which includes fog, has not impacted ...