Aerospace

TRANSDIGM GROUP had $1.7b net income on $7.9b sales for year ended Sept 30 vs $1.3b on $6.6b a year ago.

AIRBUS delivered 62 aircraft (eight A220s; 48 A320neo Fam; four A330s; two A350s) in October vs 71 (nine A220s; 51 A320s; three A330s; eight A350s) in Oct '23; it has delivered 559 of planned 770 for year. It booked/finalized orders from AMERICAN for an A321neo, DRUK AIR for three A320neos/two A321neos and undisclosed customers for 16 A320neos.

ATI announced sale of its precision rolled strip operations in New Bedford, MA and Remscheid, Germany to ULBRICH in order to focus on aerospace.

Bruno Bellanger to Chief Executive Officer of Safran Electrical & Power, France.

Lee Eckert to Chief Financial Officer of Chromalloy, FL.

AVAIR expanded aftermarket sales agreement with Lufthansa Technik Component Services to include >1,600 overhauled wheels and brakes.

IFPL GROUP was selected by Finnair to supply Cobalt Spectrum LED mood lighting systems for retrofit on 12 E190s.

IAM DISTRICT 51 has negotiated a new, updated contract proposal, now comprising a 38% general wage increase spread over four years, with BOEING that it is endorsing and recommending to members; vote is Monday, November 4.

EATON AEROSPACE earned $230m on $946m sales in 3Q24 vs $209m on $867m in 3Q23.

NIAR, in partnership with ARCONIC and EMBRAER, completed fabrication/delivery of a full-scale fuselage structural test panel to the FAA’s William J. Hughes Technical Center in Atlantic City, NJ to assess emerging metallic structures technologies (EMST); technologies being considered include advanced aluminum-lithium alloys and hybrid construction.

Joby’s 523-mi. (841-km) flight in a hydrogen-powered S4 air taxi over the summer was groundbreaking for two major reasons.

The BlackBird demonstrator is planned to fly in early 2025.

Switzerland’s Smartflyer rolled out is SFX1 prototype electric aircraft at Grenchen Airport on Nov. 6.

The aircraft will use a hybrid-electric range extender that XPeng has introduced for its electric vehicles.

The first conforming subassembly, an S4 tail, has been completed and is now undergoing conformity inspection by the FAA.

In a study relying on employee integration missions, Toulouse-based consultancy Cylad has issued a series of recommendations on how to better train workers.

Rise Air's announcement of an ATR 72-600 order marks the introduction of the type in Canada and adds to the OEM's meager list of sales since January.

The Emirates Group has releases its ‘half-year financial performance, posting a profit before tax of AED 10.4 billion (US$ 2.8 billion) for the first six months of 2024-25.

Gulfstream Aerospace will exhibit its ultra large-cabin Gulfstream G700 and the clean-sheet Gulfstream G500 aircraft at the Bahrain International Airshow.

Airbus has to deliver a further 211 commercial aircraft over November and December to meet its production target of 770 airliners in 2024.

Rolls-Royce is targeting FAA certification of a Trent 1000 high-pressure turbine blade improvement “in the coming months” after previously projecting the milestone would be reached this year.

Chinese OEM Comac has hinted that it is in the process of selecting the launch customer for the C929 widebody airliner.

Britten-Norman is now hoping to produce its first UK-manufactured Islander in November 2025, marking a slip from the original timeline of May 2024.

Lilium burned through more than $1.4 billion without achieving first flight of its Lilium Jet. Shareholders and customers want answers.

Deorbiting the ultra-high-power International Space Station would be a waste of energy, literally and figuratively.