In Pictures: Top Aerospace & Defense Stories, Aug. 08, 2022

Credit: Horizon Aircraft. The milestone comes as Ontario-based Horizon reverses its June 2021 acquisition by publicly traded Astro Aerospace, reprivatizing itself in a bid to access more flexible private-sector funding mechanisms.

Credit: Future Flight Challenge/UKRI. Its 23 members are drawn from government, trade associations, operators, academia, communications service providers and others. The UK’s airspace regulator, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), and air navigation service provider, NATS, are also represented.

Credit: Northrop Grumman. Russia banned the sale of rocket engines to U.S. companies in response to trade sanctions imposed following its invasion of Ukraine in February.

Credit: Vertical Aerospace. Bristol-based Vertical ended the first half of 2022 with £158 million ($190 million) cash in hand, having raised $300 million in December 2021 through its going-public merger with blank-check company Broadstone Acquisition.

Credit: Raytheon. The latest package, the 18th tranche of equipment provided under the presidential drawdown authority of Pentagon equipment, brings the total aid provided to Ukraine to $9.1 billion since Russia invaded the nation in late February.

Credit: Daedalean/Avidyne. The company’s office in Phoenix will be headed by Americas President Yemaya Bordain, formerly Intel’s global sales director.

Credit: U.S. Air Force. A U.S. Air Force investigation into the incident released Aug. 2 found that the left outboard main landing gear bearing failed and fell off during takeoff.

Credit: XTI Aircraft. Two 7-ft.-dia. tilting ducted fans are now mounted on the fuselage, forward of the wing, instead of the previous wing-mounted arrangement.

Credit: Kremlin Press Center. The Soviet Union dissolved more than 30 years ago, but a cloud of suspicion again hovers over aeronautical scientists in Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

Credit: The Aerospace Corp. The Rogue Alpha-Beta mission, which launched two cubesats in November 2019 to a low Earth orbit of 460 km (286 mi.), is ongoing and has spotted the upper stages of four SpaceX Falcon 9 and Soyuz rocket launches, says Dee Pack, director of the Remote Sensing Department at The Aerospace Corp.

Rolls-Royce Corp., Indianapolis, has been awarded an $854,368,644 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract.