Aerospace

Satair is to market the ground support equipment from Dedienne Aerospace across the wider Middle East and Africa regions.

To thrive in high-wage Australia, Boeing’s Melbourne plant must fabricate using advanced processes, such as the resin-infusion, oven-curing technology it applies to 787 work.

Forget your slow-moving DJI Phantom and check out the 80-mph-plus racing drones—they could be a harbinger of a faster unmanned future.

Able to fit on a fingertip, a microchip developed by Singapore’s NTU could revolutionize all-weather radar imaging for small unmanned aircraft and satellites.

Elbit Skylens for tight spaces; Snecma CROR for Europe’s Clean Sky; 3-D UAS Prints On-Demand

New aircraft have come with the fix to the door latches since early 2015; EASA encourages retrofits.

Both plans appear to be extremely bullish for defense, but rapid spending increases may prove difficult for some parts of industry to digest.

Increasing weapons exports; Canada may consider F-35 after all; F-35A operational tests; Minuteman III flies.

GE readies for test runs of its new GE9X, which will be the largest turbofan engine ever produced in terms of physical dimensions.

The African Airlines Association (AFRAA) has announced a date change to the 5th Aviation Stakeholders Convention (ASC) - still being held at the same venue - with the new dates being 07-09 May 2016.

Pipistrel tests hybrid electric; Russia flies tiltrotor UAV; coatings for smoother flying; Airbus in Singapore delivery-UAV trial; structure says where it hurts.

From battery weight and cost to motor cooling and electric arcing, a long list of issues must be tackled to make electric propulsion a reality for large aircraft.

Rolls-Royce Liberty Works and United Technologies Research Center are assessing whether parallel hybrid turbine-electric propulsion could provide fuel and emissions savings in otherwise conventional single-aisle airliners.

The Middle East & North Africa Business Aviation Association (MEBAA) started its 2016 events with an education session at the International University of Rabat (UIR) in Morocco last week.

NATS is using historical data to drive out bottlenecks and increase capacity at British airports.

California-based nonprofit R&D organization Aerospace Corp. sees it role as becoming fluent in counter-UAS technologies so it can advise its government clients on their effectiveness.

The radar for the GlobalEye is already running, in rooftop tests at Saab’s Gothenburg site, and the first Global 6000 platform for the UAE is due to arrive in Linkoping soon for modifications.

Saab is proposing a maritime patrol aircraft based on the Bombardier Global 6000 business jet that it regards as a competitor to Boeing’s P-8 Poseidon, at perhaps two-thirds the price.

The new president faces the critical challenge of steering Pratt’s production system through the largest ramp-up in its peacetime history.

“To be honest, we have got a set of partners on [the geared turbofan] already,” says Pratt President Bob Leduc.

Orders, backlogs and airline results are the building blocks of the current wall of worry for equity investors.

Triton nears production; Spain to buy Reapers; KC-46A refuels F/A-18; and the U.S. is to sell F-16s to Pakistan.

Waypoint Leasing, an Irish helicopter specialist, is adding new offices in Cape Town, as well as Brisbane, in attempt to expand into Africa, the Middle East and Australia.

Cockpit technology shrinks combat vehicles; Google testing Internet from the air; DLR seeks end to reentry blackout; TsAGI tests convertiplane UAV; Bristow buys into Sky-Futures.

NASA tests of morphing flap technology on a modified Gulfstream III aim to demonstrate the viability of the flexible flap, which could form the first step toward eventual development of a morphing wing.