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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, April 25, 2022

VOL. 280 NO. 17 April 25, 2022
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Programs

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U.S. Navy Rebrands High-Speed Missile As Hypersonic Program

Apr 22, 2022
The U.S. Navy has released the first detailed plans in the fiscal 2023 budget request for a fast-tracked acquisition of a new hypersonic missile for carrier-based fighters.
Stratolaunch Hypersonic Test Pylon
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Stratolaunch Set To Fly Hypersonic Test Pylon

Apr 22, 2022
Stratolaunch has begun taxi tests of the Roc carrier aircraft with a large underwing pylon that will be used to carry and launch the company’s Talon-A hypersonic test vehicle.
Gripen
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Brazil Seeks Four More F-39 Gripens In First Batch

Apr 22, 2022
Brazil announced plans to buy four more Saab Gripen F-39 fighters on April 22, raising the quantity in the initial batch of the single-engine aircraft to 40.

Daily Briefs

In Brief

Brazilian Saab F-35E Gripen
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Brazil Formally Inducts First Gripen E Fighters

Apr 22, 2022
The Brazilian Air Force formally inducted the first two Saab F-39E Gripens in a presidential ceremony at Santa Cruz Air Force Base in Rio de Janeiro…

Business

Rocketdyne COO Amy Gowder
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Aerojet Rocketdyne Chief Operating Officer Departing

Apr 22, 2022
Just under two years after joining Aerojet Rocketdyne as chief operating officer (COO), Amy Gowder is leaving the embattled rocket and propulsion supplier “to accept another business opportunity.”
Incoming Woodward CEO Charles Blankenship
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Blankenship To Succeeed Retiring Woodward CEO Gendron

Apr 22, 2022
Woodward Chairman, CEO and President Tom Gendron plans to retire from the major aerospace supplier on May 9, the company announced April 21, handing over the reins to Charles “Chip” Blankenship Jr. under a quietly planned succession
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Archer Moves To Sole CEO To Streamline eVTOL Development

Apr 19, 2022
Management changes are not unusual as companies go through their different phases of growth, but Archer Aviation’s April 19 announcement that co-founder and co-CEO Adam Goldstein had been named the startup’s sole CEO came as a surprise to many.

Technology

Saab 340B for NASA EPFD project
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GE Taps BAE Systems For Hybrid Electric Propulsion Team

Apr 21, 2022
BAE Systems plans to provide energy-management components, including the battery and cabling, for the megawatt-class hybrid electric propulsion system being developed by GE Aviation under the recently awarded NASA Electrified Powertrain Flight Demonstration project.
Saint-Gobain performance plastics
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Saint-Gobain Readies Faster Composite Production Technology

Apr 20, 2022
Composite materials specialist Saint-Gobain and engineering service provider Roctool have joined forces to offer a swifter curing process that, combined with 3D textile forms, is designed to speed manufacturing of complex aircraft parts.
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Zanite SPAC Bolsters Eve Merger Deal As Vote Nears

Apr 14, 2022
Zanite Acquisition has beefed up the committed funding that is backing its planned going-public merger with Eve, Embraer’s urban air mobility spinoff, as it heads into a May 6 shareholder vote on the deal.

Operations

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First Black U.S. Spacewalker Joins Texas Aviation Hall Of Fame

Apr 22, 2022
Dr. Bernard A. Harris, a retired NASA astronaut and flight surgeon and the first African-American to conduct a spacewalk, has been inducted into the Texas Aviation Hall of Fame.

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