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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, March 10, 2021

VOL. 275 NO. 46 March 10, 2021
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Business

Avanti
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Four Bidders Submit Proposals To Revive Piaggio Aerospace

Mar 09, 2021
The unnamed suitors are proposing to purchase the two companies—Piaggio Aviation and Piaggio Aero Industries—which form Villanova d’Albenga-based Piaggio Aerospace.
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Senior Sells Connecticut Operation To PCX For $74M

Mar 08, 2021
Privately held PCX Aerosystems, a Newington, Connecticut, aerospace supplier, will buy Senior Aerospace Connecticut (SAC) in Enfield from Tier 2 supplier Senior for $74 million. 
XB-1
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Boom Supersonic Gets Backing From American Express Ventures

Mar 05, 2021
Boom Supersonic has secured a strategic investment from the venture capital arm of American Express which will support development of the Denver, Colorado-based aerospace company’s Mach 2-plus 88-seat Overture airliner project.

Daily Briefs

In Brief

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U.S. Agency Orders Two Surveillance Aircraft For Border Patrols

Mar 09, 2021
The Multi-Role Enforcement Aircraft are based on the Beechcraft King Air 350/360 series, with a mission suite that includes active and passive sensors, and satellite communications. 

Operations

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NBAA, AOPA Seek Briefing On DOD’s Intentional GPS Jamming Exercises

Mar 08, 2021
Two industry trade groups are concerned that general aviation and business aircraft operators continue to deal with issues related to the intentional jamming of Global Positioning Systems for defense exercises and have asked the Department of Defense and the FAA for a briefing.
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Belgium Grounds F-16s Over Engine Concerns

Mar 09, 2021
Belgium is halting operations with its F-16 fleet to undertake urgent modifications to its engines.

Technology

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DARPA 'Grew' Landing Pad For V-22 With Living Materials

Mar 09, 2021
The ELM program chose the V-22’s brownout problem as an early test case for the complex, multicellular organisms that can “grow on-site, self-repair and respond predictably to their environment."

Programs

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AWACS Unit Endorses E-7 Acquisition For U.S. Air Force

Mar 08, 2021
The 552nd Air Control Wing issued the Facebook plea a week after two senior Air Force generals called for replacing the E-3G immediately with the E-7, due to reliability problems with the unit’s 1970s-vintage 707s. 
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Jump Aero Studies eVTOL For Navaid Calibration

Mar 09, 2021
Startup Jump Aero is to study the use of an electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicle to calibrate navigation aids, as an alternative to a costly fixed-wing platform.
VA-X4
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Rolls-Royce Electrical System To Power Vertical Aerospace eVTOL 

Mar 09, 2021
Rolls-Royce has been selected to provide the electrical propulsion system for Vertical Aerospace’s gull-wing VA-X4 urban air mobility aircraft. 
Comet
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Study Suggests Oort Cloud Comets Delivered Life-Enabling Carbon

Mar 08, 2021
Comet impacts during the Solar System’s planet-forming period about 4.5 billion years ago may have delivered the carbon essential for life to the rocky planets in the Sun’s habitable zone, according to a new study of the comet Catalina.

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