If you've ever watched a Boeing 787 Dreamliner take off and thought, "Wait, are those wings made of rubber?" — well, you're not alone in wondering about them. They really do bend that much. In fact, ...

Boeing completed the ultimate load test on the static test 787 airframe, ZY997, at Everett on March 28. The test — officially dubbed Condition 18b — evaluated the ability of the wing-body structure to ...

For more than a century, aircraft have relied on hinges, hydraulics, and mechanical control surfaces to maneuver through the ...