Aerospace

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

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Calhoun wants new types that delivers in the neighborhood a 20-30% improvement over today’s airplanes.

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Every aspect of Elfly Group’s project is ambitious, but CEO and founder Eric Lithun argues it is achievable.

Tomorrow.io, a startup providing satellite-enabled weather data and services, said it closed an $87 million Series E round of venture capital funding.

ExIm estimates the Supply Chain Facility will support around $982 million worth of export sales of various models of commercial aircraft to customers worldwide.

Ispace of Japan has named Ronald Garan as the CEO of its subsidiary ispace technologies U.S.

Swift Aircraft and GKN announced on June 14 that they will work together to develop design concepts for the integration of the cryogenic system on the platform.

Virgin Galactic is aiming to begin commercial suborbital spaceflight services between June 27 and 30, the company said on June 15.

German aerial remote sensing company AeroDCS has completed the first hover flight of the Air Barrow Fuel Cell hydrogen-fueled unmanned aircraft.

Flight of the NASA X-57 Maxwell electric aircraft is in doubt as the program concludes at the end of September and is dealing with another technical problem.

Arianespace is delaying the launch of its final Ariane 5 rocket due to a possible technical issue with the booster.

Swiss startup Dufour Aerospace has finalized the design and specifications for its Aero2 hybrid-electric tiltwing VTOL UAS.

May 2023 was the first time that any aircraft class in Europe—regional turboprop—reached and exceeded the equivalent month in 2019.

MQ-9B SeaGuardian has recorded a number of recent first-ever achievements in a range of operational and test environments around the world.

Some major airlines are ramping up plans to adopt air taxi service.

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Despite increased defense spending, parliamentary hearings are hinting at potentially adverse consequences for some of France’s key defense aerospace programs.

Delta Flights Product has created a new personal wheelchair access offering—based on what was just a concept last year.

The UK is signaling Tempest’s lead over the European FCAS with advances in ground test rigs and engine aerodynamic work.

L3Harris is breaking barriers by leveraging its industry-leading technologies and services and adapting them to the AAM and eVTOL ecosystem.

Hexcel and its advanced lightweight composites are helping Archer become among the first to deliver a safe, reliable eVTOL platform to market.

Ukrainian success in fending off Russia’s invasion is changing Western allies’ policy about supplying fighters.