Aerospace

AAR posted $14m net income for third quarter ended Feb 29 (vs $21.8m a year ago) on record $567m sales, up 9% vs a year ago; commercial sales rose 18% from a year ago and accounted for 70% of company total vs 65% a year ago.

ITP AERO, Spain earned (EBITDA) €217m in 2023 (vs €146m in 2022) on record €1.3b sales, up 25% vs a year ago.

The CarryAll is the first version of AutoFlight’s planned Prosperity family of 2,000-kg gross weight eVTOL uncrewed cargo and piloted passenger aircraft.

The FAA has released proposed special conditions for type certification of electric engines developed by Beta Technologies and Safran.

Boom Supersonic has flown XB-1 demonstrator, the world’s first privately developed faster-than-sound civil aircraft.

Embraer has selects Dassault Systèmes’ Simulation Technology to support quieter eVTOL aircraft development for Eve Air Mobility.

This week Emirates was crowned the global winner of the Best Inflight Entertainment Award in Airline Ratings 2024 Airline Excellence Awards.

This week’s Flight Friday looks at the return of Asia-Pacific region operators (excluding China and India) to pre-pandemic levels of utilization.

SpaceX is looking to fly Starship again in early May.

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

Listen in as former Space Shuttle program manager Wayne Hale joins Aviation Week editors to unpack Starship's third flight test.

FAA revises type certification basis for eVTOLs, beginning with Joby

U.S. autonomous aviation startup Reliable Robotics has announced the receipt of two new contract awards from the Department of Defense and NASA.

The Defense Innovation Unit has awarded three contracts for development of low-cost space tugs and in-space refueling technologies.

IndiGo has been named ‘Airline of the Year’ at the Air Transport Awards 2024.

iGA Istanbul Airport has received the "Airport of the Year" award at the "Air Transport Awards 2024.”

The East African nation, Ethiopia, has been successfully running the largest airline in Africa-Ethiopian Airlines. The national carrier in recent years has transformed into an aviation group comprising eight profit centers with an annual income of six billion US dollars.

Astra Space and Terran Orbital are the latest public space startups to bow out.

The aging aircraft’s final deployment measures air quality in Asia as researchers lament lack of space in its replacement, a Boeing 777-200.

Eve Air Mobility has chosen the name Vector for its in-development urban air traffic management solution, with first deliveries now planned for 2026.

A consortium of UK and European companies have called on the British government to provide additional funding towards making the hydrogen fuel plan a reality.

A UK-based startup has begun flight tests of a co-axial, rotary-wing UAS that it hopes to bring to the military market in the next two years.

VIASAT was selected by Korean Air to provide inflight connectivity for 40 787s (in addition to 30 A321neos) by end 2027.

CFO Brian West told a Bank of America investor conference that Boeing would buy back Spirit using cash and debt; Boeing ended 2023 with almost $16 billion.

The company is working on changing long-established priorities that valued speed over quality.