Engine pylons are made boring. When they fail, the chain of loads and dependencies that are usually kept under the carpet is revealed within seconds usually too late to salvage. In the UPS Flight 2976 ...

When an individual structural interface can lose an engine at takeoff power, the engineering discourse ceases being about fleet age, and becomes about transferability and the speed with which an ...

Boeing, the lead integrator on the Boeing B-52H Stratofortress heavy bomber re-engining programme, will not physically inspect the pylons on each aircraft, leaving that duty to the US Air Force (USAF) ...