Aerospace

At Farnborough Airshow 2024, an absence of new aircraft orders spoke volumes. Listen in as Aviation Week's team analyze the week, breaking down the deals that did take place and sharing the buzz from airlines, suppliers and manufacturers.

Ethiopian MRO, the maintenance division of Ethiopian Airlines, has agreed with ATR to develop repair and training capabilities from its base in Addis Ababa.

The company has unveiled detailed flight deck and engine program plans as it faces a challenging development schedule.

Falcon 9 success streak ends after 325 consecutive flights.

The Pentagon is still limiting payments to Lockheed Martin amid upgrade struggles.

The UK company is aiming for service entry by the end of the decade.

Taking the market opportunity as a whole, EAMaven identifies a target market of 416 million travelers.

At the same time, Honeywell’s venture capital arm has made an undisclosed investment in Electra.

HERBER AIRCRAFT SERVICE, CA was named by Eaton Aerospace as global distributor of its aerospace conveyance and engine solution product lines.

The goal is to launch pilot programs on routes in unpopulated areas with 25 preproduction aircraft in 2025.

Swiss electric propulsion startup H55 has announced the closing of a Series C funding round.

Sigma has signed agreements with eVTOL developer Supernal and VoltAero.

Blue Origin says it has resolved a problem that impaired operation of one of three parachutes on the last flight of its New Shepard suborbital system.

PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA was selected by Maeve to collaborate of development of hybrid-electric propulsion technologies for M80 regional aircraft, which is being designed with 1,200 nm-range for entry into service in 2032.

AVIATION WEEK NETWORK forecasts delivery of 2,000 commercial eVTOLs by '30, 12,000 by '40 and 33,000 by '50.

STS COMPONENT SOLUTIONS was named exclusive distributor of MarathonNorco'a mechanical products, including ball reversers, hold open rods, remote release systems and latches, in Americas, EMEA, Japan and Australia/New Zealand.

ITP AERO UK was selected by Pratt & Whitney to supply GTF combustors out of Hucknall (East Midlands) from late '24.

VOLTAERO secured MOU from Sigma Air Mobility to demonstrate its Cassio electric-hybrid aircraft for potential orders.

KLM and ZEROAVIA are collaborating for demo flight in 2026 of turboprop (TBA) with ZA2000 hydrogen-electric engine.

SAFRAN is building €6m manufacturing facility in Chihuahua, Mexico for evac systems and seat components from '25.

EMBRAER unveiled new developments for its Energia sustainable aircraft concepts that include going to 50-seater vs 30 and testing hydrogen gas turbine/dual fuel (GT/DF) approach in addition to hybrid electric and fuel cell technologies.

GE AEROSPACE has EVA Air order to supply GEnx-1Bs for four 787-10s on order.

THYSSENKRUPP AEROSPACE INDIA has Dynamatic Techologies contract to manage its supply chain for raw materials (covering aluminum, steel and titanium products), warehousing and processing services for A220 program.

BOEING was selected by Ryanair to provide Jeppesen FliteDeck Pro 5.0 EFB solution to provide tailored route info.

EMBRAER forecasts global demand for 10,500 sub-150-seat jets (8,470) and turboprops (2,030) worth US$640b over next 20 years; replacement of aging aircraft will account for 54% of all new deliveries while 46% will be used for growth.