Aerospace

Woodward cited strong commercial demand in the June quarter as its sales rose 6% year-on-year, with its aftermarket business doing particularly well.

Retaining Moya's same tiltbody electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) airframe, the hybrid version increases range capability to 185 mi. while maintaining the 440-lb. payload capability.

Le Bourget organizers explain how environmental pressures are already influencing plans for 2025.

BARNES AEROSPACE earned $29.3m on $218m sales in 2Q24 vs $16.6m on $122m in 2Q23, citing dramatic increase in sales as result of acquisition of MB AEROSPACE; aerospace OEM backlog is $1.5b, up 3% from end of March 2024.

Gavin Gallogly to Vice President of Sales-Americas for Flight Solutions Group of GA Telesis, FL.

INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS & SUPPORT, PA entered into exclusive license agreement (including acquiring key assets) with Honeywell for intellectual property rights to manufacture/upgrade/repair additional communication/navigation products.

GKN AEROSPACE has committed to Airbus’ 2-year Sustainable Wing Solutions (SusWingS) R&T program focusing on high-performance wing technologies and environmentally conscious manufacturing processes; it is investing £4m.

Peter Evans to Group Director of Sales and Business Development of First Aviation Services, Westport, CT.

As Universal Hydrogen’s branch in Toulouse is being liquidated, former employees may launch a new project, making the most of their work over the past 2-3 years

Rolls-Royce’s rapid development of its Orpheus demonstrator engine is beginning to pay dividends and even influencing how the UK OEM thinks about its large commercial engine developments.

Airbus’ high-altitude pseudo-satellite (HAPS) spinoff Aalto has won design organization approvals (DOA) from the UK Civil Aviation Authority.

Turkish Airlines has added a new currency to its financing portfolio in line with its natural currency hedging policy.

Collins Aerospace's Singaporean subsidiary Hamilton Sundstrand Pacific Aerospace is being relocated to a new $250 million site at Seletar Aerospace Park.

CAeS says it is close to securing funding to support flight-testing of a hydrogen fuel cell propulsion system on a modified Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander.

VoltAero and Kawasaki Motors have revealed new details about plans to power later versions of the Cassio hybrid-electric aircraft with a hydrogen-fueled version of its newly developed supercharged aero piston engine family.

McKinsey partnered with Aviation Week to survey 175 leaders across more than 80 firms. Read more.

SpaceX ended a two-week grounding of the world’s busiest rocket fleet with a trio of Falcon 9 launches over the weekend, dispatching Starlink satellites into orbit.

Cryogenic hydrogen propulsion; airborne 5G connectivity; Airbus UK wing research; and fuel cell for propulsion.

Australian-Spanish startup Dovetail is to provide prototype modules for initial functional and integration testing.

DE HAVILLAND CANADA and PAL AEROSPACE signed MOU to jointly develop new innovations for Dash 8-400, including LEO inflight connectivity and conversion to combi configuration, for PAL's fleet and third party operators.

Constantino Malatesta to interim Chief Financial Officer of CAE, Montreal; Sonya Branco is stepping down at end of August.

L3HARRIS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS earned $329m on $1.35b sales in 2Q24 vs $325m on $1.29b in 2Q23.

VERTICAL AEROSPACE, UK completed first tethered piloted flight of its VX4 prototype eVTOL; next phase of testing will include thrustborne flight testing whereby aircraft will takeoff/land vertically and conduct low speed flight manoeuvres.

CASTLE PRECISION ENGINEERING has £85m Rolls-Royce contract to supply precision-machined rotating parts.

ZEROAVIA booked order from Edinburgh-based Ecojet to supply 22 ZA2000 hydrogen-electric engines, plus 40 options, for retrofit on its regional turboprop fleet (TBD). Ecojet plans to launch in late 2024 with conventionally powered aircraft.