All Nippon Airways, showing increasing impatience with Boeing over delays to 787 deliveries, will ask the airframer for assurance that it can meet the latest schedule. As launch customer for the 787, ANA says Boeing’s announcement of a new delivery schedule is welcome because it eases uncertainty

BEIJING — Avic Defense is pushing its units to cooperate more closely, seeking to weld an integrated manufacturer of combat aircraft, trainers, drones and missiles from a widely dispersed collection of factories and research institutes. The company, the defense subsidiary of Chinese aeronautics conglomerate Avic, is developing according to a principle of internal specialization, setting up so-called centers of excellence in various fields, President Wang Yawei says.

Taiwan’s AIDC has instituted a trial production run at a new composites plant on which it is staking its future as a supplier to global civil aerospace programs. In building the plant, the state-owned manufacturer is undertaking a broad push to upgrade its technology and to prepare to build larger composite parts. Its key market is programs for civil aircraft with up to 100 seats.