Spanish near-space tourism company Halo Space has unveiled the design of the balloon capsule it plans to use to take passengers on stratospheric flights.
About three years before its first scheduled fielding, the U.S. Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft fleet has a new group of F-16-based testbed aircraft.
The company is studying hybrid-electric helicopters, continuing its electric certification drive and pushing Dash 7 conversion for NASA’s flight demonstrator.
AVIATION WEEK NETWORK reports delivery by COMAC of nine ARJ21s and two C919s in 1Q24 vs one ARJ21 and zero C919s in 1Q23; new orders were booked for 16 ARJ21s and 40 C919s, leaving a backlog of 470 ARJ21s and 833 C919s.
RHINESTAHL CTS and WAYGATE TECHNOLOGIES teamed to add two-way communication between Rhinestahl’s FutureDriveNG+ turning tool and Waygate’s Mentor Visual iQ+ (MViQ+) video borescope for improved inspections.
KELLSTROM AEROSPACE, FL was appointed by Canada's LBM (Libellule Monde) as global commercial aftermarket distributor of its interior placards, interior deco films, exterior markings, erosion protection, and livery.
RHINESTAHL, OH agreed to acquire HYDRO SYSTEMS, Germany to form single company named RH AERO SYSTEMS to provide engine/airframe tooling, GSE and other engineered products along with asset management and sustainment.
Max Space sees its inflatable structures as useful for building orbiting space stations in Earth orbit, but habitats in cislunar space, on the Moon and Mars.
The bench is a flight simulator built to the fidelity required for certification testing of both hardware and software that will then go to the aircraft.
Tom Gentile succeeds Chairman, CEO and President Nick Stanage, “who worked closely with the board on his desire to retire at the end of the year,” Hexcel says.
EMBRAER and CORREIOS signed MOU to conduct joint studies to advance optimization and expansion of the Brazilian and international air networks for large cargo, focusing on new business models using E-190F, E-195F, and C-390.
BOEING delivered 29 airliners (24 737 MAXs; five 787s) in March 2024 vs 64 (52 737 MAXs; 737NG; 767F; three 777Fs; seven 787s) in March 2023; it delivered 83 aircraft in 1Q24 vs 130 in 1Q23. It announced orders from an unidentified customer for 20 777Xs and ended quarter with 6,259 aircraft on backlog, up from 5,356 a year ago.
CFM INTERNATIONAL delivered first LEAP-1A with new reverse bleed system (RBS), which mitigates carbon build-up on fuel nozzles, reducing required on-wing replacements; it also plans to introduce the RBS on the LEAP-1B.
