Boeing is accelerating production of its P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft amid mounting signs of additional international sales and solid funding for planned U.S. Navy procurement.
After selling all eight Dornier 228s batch built in a new-generation configuration, RUAG Aviation (Chalet 120, Static A5, Hall 4 B77) is reconfiguring its supply chain to deliver a minimum of four and up to 12 of the 19-seat aircraft every year, beginning in 2016. And the MRO-specialist-turned-OEM is offering a range of gap-bridging solutions to ensure its product remains competitive on delivery timescale.
Esterline CMC Electronics is presenting its new expanded portfolio of avionics and highlighting finalization in February of its acquisition of global technology giant Barco’s aerospace and defense division at this year’s Paris Air Show.
A spate of Proton launch mishaps has created a de facto duopoly of Arianespace and SpaceX, two companies vying to dominate the global commercial launch market.
An in-flight propeller-blade balancing system, which LORD says will soon start to be installed on the U.S. Air National Guard's C-130H fleet, could bring threefold savings in maintenance costs, enhance performance, extend airframe life and increase availability.
In the scramble to compete for a chance to build such cutting-edge constellations, established satellite makers accustomed to producing a handful of high-dollar spacecraft each year have already learned a few things from Silicon Valley
Approaching his 10th anniversary on the job, Boeing chairman and CEO Jim McNerney spoke with AW&ST editor-in-chief Joe Anselmo and senior editor Guy Norris at the company’s headquarters in Chicago.
Today, with 48 firm export orders for Rafales that must be produced by 2021, Dassault will gradually ramp-up production at its Merignac assembly facility in southwestern France.
Trumpeting its qualities as a surveillance and light attack aircraft, the IOMAX Archangel returns to Paris for a second appearance, this time in definitive, two-seat form.
General Electric’s GE9X development program for the Boeing 777X is entering a crucial test phase as it accelerates toward runs of the first complete core this summer.
Fifteen of the top 25 aerospace companies have operations in Ontario. Long-time tenants Bombardier Aerospace, Airbus, Finemeccanica, General Dynamics and Messier-Bugatti-Dowty were joined in recent years by heavy hitters such as Mitsubishi Heavy Industries whose division, MHI Canada Aerospace, makes airframe parts in Mississauga.
Fernando Alonso was working to bring the company’s flagship A400M airlifter project back on schedule. But the loss of aircraft MSN23 in Seville, Spain, on May 9 with the loss of four lives has created additional complications and delay as Spanish authorities conduct their investigation.
CAE will take Flight Safety International’s place as the turn-key initial and recurrent simulator and live flight training provider for more than 600 pilots who fly the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force C-12, starting in fall 2016.
The shipset of the first U.S.-produced Airbus A320 family aircraft has left Europe, and assembly of the A321ceo, destined for delivery to JetBlue in 2016, will begin this summer as scheduled.
Raytheon's AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon C-1 has begun operational testing with the U.S. Navy on F/A-18 Super Hornet and is expected to be fielded to the fleet in 2016.
