Honeywell UOP is working with China’s Oriental Energy to build a large sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) facility in Maoming, Guangdong province. 

Despite Russia’s invasion of Ukraine adding to a panoply of issues facing the aerospace industry, executives from Boeing and Airbus told the Aviation Week Raw Materials and Manufacturers Supply Chain Conference that the OEMs were standing firm on planned airliner production rate ramps.

The U.S. Air Force has repackaged a series of upgrades for 608 Lockheed Martin F-16s into a single modernization program worth $6.3 billion, the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center said on March 1.

Helicopter operations are a small fraction of global annual aviation fuel usage, but the industry wants to join aviation’s green efforts.

The aerospace industry has begun to evaluate the consequences of the sanctions the EU is imposing on Russia’s aviation in the wake of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. 

An order uptick is giving the rotorcraft industry confidence that it is emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic.

If Boeing does not begin a new airliner this year, its ability to launch one will be increasingly constrained.

ARPA-E funds electric; DLR opens Winglab; River rescue drone; Northrop’s Digital Shadow; Heavylift cargo UAV; Astroscale restarts demo.