Recent appointments, promotions and honors in the aviation and aerospace industry.

Readers write about the FAMM program, 20 Twenties, our Bill Franke interview, Virgin’s spaceplane and inflight connectivity. Plus, behind the scenes with Michael O. Lavitt.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

The cloud-based software is intended to allow space tech developers to test interoperability before flight.

Structural reorganization and Lean processes are making headway in GE Aerospace’s push to increase production capacity and tackle durability improvements.

The German market is an early proving ground for companies vying to equip European air forces with collaborative combat aircraft to augment crewed fighters.

As German civil aerospace copes with multiple overlapping crises, preparations for the next-generation narrowbody aircraft are accelerating.

Artificial intelligence’s trillion-dollar question: When the bubble bursts, what lasting value will remain?