An aerospace manufacturer is a company or individual involved in the various aspects of designing, building, testing, selling, and maintaining aircraft, aircraft parts, missiles, rockets, or spacecraft. Aerospace is a high technology industry.
An Airbus A321 on final assembly line 3 in the Airbus plant at Hamburg Finkenwerder Airport
NASA's AIM (Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere) satellite, assembled in clean room
The aircraft design process is a loosely defined method used to balance many competing and demanding requirements to produce an aircraft that is strong, lightweight, economical and can carry an adequate payload while being sufficiently reliable to safely fly for the design life of the aircraft. Similar to, but more exacting than, the usual engineering design process, the technique is highly iterative, involving high-level configuration tradeoffs, a mixture of analysis and testing and the detailed examination of the adequacy of every part of the structure. For some types of aircraft, the design process is regulated by civil airworthiness authorities.
Advanced Supersonic Transport (AST) model in wind tunnel
The external surfaces of an aircraft modelled in MATLAB
Aircraft engine being tested in a wind tunnel