Rolls-Royce has hired Infosys, one of India’s largest digitally-based consulting firms, to provide engineering, research and development services for its civil aerospace business, turning over a major office in Bengaluru that the engine-maker built up over the last decade.

The promise the French industry made this past June to make its supply chain stronger is beginning to materialize.

Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) will shift aerospace workers to other divisions for the duration of the downturn in demand for commercial airliners.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has suspended development of the SpaceJet for more than three years.

For sure, 2020 will go down as the worst year for commercial aviation since World War II, but the question increasingly is, will 2021 be much better?…

Recent comments by a senior Russian government official illustrate how authorities and aircraft manufacturers in the country are getting increasingly worried about losing access to Western technologies as political tensions between Russia, the U.S. and Europe rise.

Drawing on government funding into hydrogen propulsion, the manufacturer is working to define a commercial airliner to enter service in 2035.

Air Lease Corporation chairman Steven Udvar Házy is encouraging Boeing to publicly refer to the 737 MAX by its more formal numerical designations, such as the 737-8 and 737-9, calling the name “MAX” a “clear liability.”