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The Week In Aerospace And Defense

Graham Warwick

Defense

Spirit AeroSystems

Spirit AeroSystems has completed the composite fuselage for Bell Helicopter’s V-280 Valor tiltrotor, scheduled to fly in late 2017 under the U.S. Army’s Joint Multi Role technology demonstration – precursor to the planned Future Vertical Lift Medium program to replace Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawks. Read more (Subscribers)

Defense

Guy Norris/AWST

Lockheed Martin rolled out the first F-35A for Norway on Sep. 22, as an Oslo defense ministry report leaked ahead of a parliamentary debate early in 2016 recommended sticking with procurement of 52 aircraft. But budgets could still force a 10-aircraft cut. Plans to buy 65 F-35s have become an issue in Canada’s Oct. 19 general election. Read more (Subscribers)

Defense

Boeing

Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Sep. 24-29 visit to the U.S., and three years after their selection, India finally has approved the $2.5 billion purchase of 22 AH-64E Apache attack helicopters and 12 CH-47F Chinook cargo helicopters from Boeing. Read more (Subscribers)

Defense

EMD-2 aircraft/Boeing

The need to redesign a complex fuel manifold that failed qualification stress tests is the main reason behind the delay in flying the first fully equipped Boeing KC-46 aerial refueling tanker, says the U.S. Air Force. First flight of aircraft EMD 2 is scheduled for Sep. 25. Read more (Subscribers)

Defense

Thailand has ordered four T-50 supersonic trainers from Korea Aerospace Industries, becoming the fifth customer for the aircraft after South Korea, Indonesia, the Philippines and Iraq and boosting the orderbook to 198. The aircraft will be delivered within three years. Read more (Subscribers)

Commercial Aviation

Aktug Ates

Hainan Airlines will take 20 of the 45 A330s the Beijing government ordered in June in return for Airbus setting up a completion center in China. China Aviation Supplies, the agency that buys aircraft in bulk for Chinese airlines, has also allocated 15 to China Eastern, 5 to Tibet Airlines and 5 to Sichuan Airlines. Read more (subscribers)

Commercial Aviation

Boeing

Boeing is bringing production of fuselage panels for the 747-8 into its Macon, Georgia, plant and seeking new suppliers to take over manufacture of other airframe sections now produced by Triumph Aerostructures and supplied by its heritage companies since the 747 program began in 1966. 

Commercial Aviation

Jason Redman-Pool/Getty Images

Boeing confirms it is working with Comac to establish a 737 completion center in China, the location and timing to be announced later. The center, an agreement to purchase 300 aircraft including 250 737s, and a broader supplier role for Avic were announced during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Sep. 24 visit to Seattle. Read more

Pictured: Boeing Commercial Airplanes president and CEO Ray Conner (left) and President Xi Jinping (right) at Boeing’s aircraft manufacturing facilities. 

 

Technology

Airbus

The Airbus-sponsored Perlan 2 glider, which will attempt to set a wing-borne altitude record of 90,000 ft. without power early in 2016 by riding giant mountain waves into the stratospheric polar night jet, made its first flight from Redmond, Oregon, on Sep. 24. The aircraft flew at 5,000 ft. on its first test. Read more 

Space

China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp

Long March 6, the first member of China’s new liquid-propellant launch vehicle family, flew for the first time on Sep. 20, from Taiyuan, placing 20 satellites into polar orbit. First launch of the solid-propellant Long March 11, designed to launch military satellites as short notice, is expected on Sep. 25. Read more (Subscribers)

Space

ULA

Having rejected Aerojet Rocketdyne’s reported $2 billion takeover bid, United Launch Alliance (ULA) is ousting it as booster supplier. Orbital ATK will develop new solid rocket boosters to replace Aerojet on the Atlas V by the end of 2018 and to power ULA’s new Vulcan launcher beginning mid-2019. Read more (Subscribers)

Space

NASA

NASA doubts Orbital ATK can meet its goal of returning the Antares commercial-cargo launcher to flight by March 2016 in the wake of last October’s explosion on liftoff.  The agency says a June 2016 launch is more realistic. Read more (subscribers)

Business Aviation

BBA Aviation

BBA Aviation, U.K. owner of the world’s largest fixed-based operator (FBO) Signature Flight Support, has agreed to acquire rival network Landmark Aviation for just over $2 billion. Landmark has 68 FBO locations in the U.S., Canada, France and the U.K., and has more than 110 aircraft under charter management.

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Graham leads Aviation Week's coverage of technology, focusing on engineering and technology across the aerospace industry, with a special focus on identifying technologies of strategic importance to aviation, aerospace and defense.

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