Stretched 757 advances

The first pressure bulkhead web component for the tail section of the new Boeing 757-300 is checked at Northrop Grumman's Commercial Aircraft division in Dallas, Texas. Boeing's fuselage-assembly-improvement team has transferred the 757 design into electronic CATIA three-dimensional models, allowing the shortest design-to-production time of any Boeing derivative programme. The ...

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