Aerospace

The FAA has updated its concept of operations for urban air mobility.

Europe’s space and telecommunication heavyweights have formed a consortium to bid for the European Union’s IRIS² satellite constellation.

Vertical Aerospace has pushed back the target date for type certification of its VX4 electric air taxi from 2025 to late 2026.

Thai satellite service provider and operator Thaicom has entered a partnership with Japan’s Synspective to provide synthetic aperture radar satellite services.

Lilium has begun wind tunnel testing of a large-scale powered model of its Lilium Jet.

Pilots’ unions have been vocal about the idea of cutting flight crews from two to one.

Joby Aviation has announced that existing shareholder Baillee Gifford will purchase an additional $180 million in newly issued shares.

Japanese drone manufacturer ACSL has entered the U.S. market.

The pacing item to return to flight may be the automated destruct safety system.

Wisk’s new CEO Brian Yutko sat down with Managing Editor Ben Goldstein to discuss his company’s vision for autonomous urban air mobility.

What if airframer Boeing offered to buy back the Wichita aerostructures operations of Spirit AeroSystems, would Spirit be open to it?

A preliminary report has been released by ATSB into the Coulson Aviation 737 firefighting tanker crash in Australia.

Howmet Aerospace is ready to support Boeing in its ramp-up of monthly production of new 737 MAX narrowbodies.

Strategy of denial also focuses on cyber, space and anti-access, aerial-denial weaponry.

The Airbus Perlan 2 stratospheric glider is en route to South America.

Lulav Space’s engineers gained experience with lunar guidance, navigation and control via prior work on the Beresheet 1 lunar lander mission in 2019.

German air taxi startup Lilium has announced a plan to raise up to $250 million in fresh capital.

VSE CORPORATION agreed to sell its Federal and Defense segment to BERNHARD CAPITAL PARTNERS for up to $100m.

HOWMET AEROSPACE had $148m net income on $1.6b sales in 1Q23 vs $131m on $1.3b in 1Q22.

LILIUM announced capital raise for up to $250m, with $100m funded at close, to continue development of its Lilium Jet at full pace.

LUFTHANSA SYSTEMS has 1Sched@Cloud contract with Lufthansa Group to provide NetLine/Sched schedule management solution as standard.

Barry Kohler to Chief Executive Officer of Erickson, Portland, OR.

ZEROAVIA received ex-Horizon Air Dash 8-Q400 (4348) from Alaska Airlines for retrofit with hydrogen-electric propulsion system for partnership with De Havilland

SAFRAN was selected by flydubai to supply new business class seats (based on VUE platform) for certain 737s used on longer-haul routes.

European and U.S. regulators are working to ensure transferability of eVTOL type certificates.