Tighter Oversight of Aircraft Design Urged by U.S. FAA

An All Nippon Airways (ANA) of Japan 787 Dreamliner jet sits idle on the tarmac parking at Paine Field in Everett, Washington, January 17, 2013. Anthony Bolante / Reuters U.S. regulators want to tighten oversight of aircraft-industry suppliers, ...

Filed under: Investing Boeing 's 787 Dreamliner just returned to the skies after a four-month grounding, but already there's trouble. The director of the Airline Pilots' Association of Japan, Toshikazu Nagasawa, said that pilots weren't ...

May 26--Ten years ago, Boeing had a unit of 1,200 engineers in Everett designing electronic controls for all its airplanes, and a plant in Texas where another 1,200 people built the hardware. The company created the unit in the early 1980s because ...

Federal regulators certifying the safety of the 787′s lithium-ion batteries never visited the battery's manufacturer in Japan nor the company that designed the surrounding battery system in France, according to testimony at an investigative ...

Tests of Boeing Co. (BA)'s 787 Dreamliner batteries weren't adequate to ensure that they wouldn't overheat or burn, the top U.S. aircraft-accident investigator said after a two-day hearing. Officials from Boeing and the U.S. Federal Aviation ...

April 24 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. aviation accident investigators today will resume grilling officials from Boeing Co. and the government over the approval of the 787's batteries that failed and led to the longest U.S. grounding of a commercial plane in ...

(Corrects details on 2009 incident starting in 15th paragraph.) April 23 (Bloomberg) -- The chief U.S. aviation accident investigator said today a Boeing Co. official was providing incomplete information to a safety panel about how it calculated the ...

2 Oro Valley projects aim to attract high-end renters moving to area Print Email 2013-04-22T00:00:00Z Emily Bregel Arizona Daily Star Arizona Daily Star 1 hour ago • Emily Bregel Arizona Daily Star Apartments in Tucson are beginning to fill up, ...

Filed under: Company News , Technology , General Motors , Aerospace & Defense , Automotive Industry By Deepa Seetharaman TROY, Michigan -- For nearly two years, a team of former Chevrolet Volt and Toyota Prius engineers has been working on the ...