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

Will engine-makers be enticed to try to meet requirements for the two new notional civil and military aircraft that need an engine that does not yet exist?

After the initial funding wave, investors grow leery of unfulfilled promises by startups.

New Zealand’s Dawn Aerospace has been certified to fly its Mk. 2 Aurora reusable suborbital spaceplane demonstrator at unlimited speed up to 80,000 ft.

Joby Aviation modifies S4 pre-production prototype into a technology demonstrator for hydrogen-electric propulsion.

Guillaume Faury is looking to bring more work in-house in order to deal with supplier issues.

Do Airbus and Boeing’s aerostructures reintegrations represent a trend, anomalies or both?

Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury says two factors are “marginally affecting” the timeline for when the OEM will launch its next narrowbody aircraft.