Angus Batey has been contributing to various titles within the Aviation Week Network since 2009. He has reported from military bases, industrial facilities, trade shows and conferences, on topics ranging from defense and space to business aviation, advanced air mobility and cybersecurity.
An extension to a memorandum of understanding between the government of Japan and France's aviation regulator, will help pave the way for greater collaboration between Japanese and French business. But, according to Hiroyuki Hatada, director of the aerospace and defense industry division of the Japanese government's ministry of economy, trade and industry, it is also part of an ambitious and wide-ranging strategy by the Japanese government to help its aerospace sector grow.
GE Aviation is celebrating passing a major production milestone for its flight-management systems. The company has just delivered its 20,000th flight-management computer, some 35 years after developing its first.