Aerospace Aircraft & Propulsion
Jun 28, 2024
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Jun 27, 2024
Despite strong demand for new commercial aircraft, supply chain woes are forcing Airbus to delay rate targets and may make it sell parts of the space business.
Jun 25, 2024
The airframer projects it will reach historic E-Jet peak production in a few years, while studies for a larger narrowbody include wing and fuselage concepts.
Jun 25, 2024
Next-Generation Air Dominance is in question as top service officials say the 2026 budget will include hard decisions.
Jun 24, 2024
To produce three or four commercial aircraft per day, Airbus receives 2.2 million parts.
Jul 01, 2024
Boeing announced it entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Spirit AeroSystems early July 1 which values the supplier at $4.7 billion.
Jun 30, 2024
Start-up zero-emissions propulsion developer Universal Hydrogen has been forced into liquidation after failing to raise additional funding.
Jun 28, 2024
Airbus is conducting a flight-test campaign to study the water vapor exhaust from a hydrogen fuel cell system to understand if it will create a contrail.
Jun 27, 2024
Boeing is pointing to factory floor changes as keys to tracking metrics that, for now, are more relevant than familiar measuring sticks like production rates.
Jun 26, 2024
Liquid hydrogen (LH2) may be the promised panacea for aviation’s journey to net-zero, but getting there is going to be tough—particularly for the engine-makers.
Jun 25, 2024
The UK petroleum giant is scaling back plans to develop new sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and renewable diesel production projects in Europe and the U.S.
Jun 25, 2024
Safran has made an investment in Estuaire, a Paris-based start-up company offering software tools to measure aviation's climate impact.
Jun 22, 2024
NASA and Boeing are moving the CST-100 Starliner Crew Flight Test mission return to Earth to enable further evaluation of the spacecraft's propulsion system.