With all the excitement surrounding the upcomingBoeing 777X family of widebody aircraft, whose passenger variants are known as the 777-8 and 777-9, it can be easy to forget the fact that this series ...

Boeing has started work on the initial 777-8 Freighter test aircraft, drilling the first hole into a wing spar as it works towards delivery of the lead aircraft in 2028. About 100 teammates were at ...

EVERETT — Boeing officials celebrated the start of production of its delayed 777X-8 freighter Monday, holding a ceremony at the company’s Composite Wing Center in Everett. That’s where a worker ...

EVERETT, Wash. — Boeing officially kicked off production of its newest cargo jet, the 777-8 Freighter, at its Everett factory Monday by drilling the first hole into one of the plane’s wing spars. The ...

An automated fiber placement machine has been used to lay down plies of composite material to create the first 777-8F wing spar. Credit: Marian Lockhart/Boeing Boeing has begun construction of the ...

Umeco manufactured a suite of large-scale tooling mandrels for GKN Aerospace using Umeco’s tooling prepregs. GKN Aerospace uses these tools to produce Airbus A350XWB rear wing spars using advanced ...