Aerospace

AAR

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.

Aerospace

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

Aerospace

By Ben Goldstein
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.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
The FAA has released proposed special conditions for type certification of electric engines developed by Beta Technologies and Safran.
Advanced Air Mobility

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

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

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

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

By Irene Klotz
SpaceX is looking to fly Starship again in early May.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz, Guy Norris
Listen in as former Space Shuttle program manager Wayne Hale joins Aviation Week editors to unpack Starship's third flight test.
Check 6

By Graham Warwick
FAA revises type certification basis for eVTOLs, beginning with Joby
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
U.S. autonomous aviation startup Reliable Robotics has announced the receipt of two new contract awards from the Department of Defense and NASA.
Advanced Air Mobility

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

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

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

By Kaleyesus Bekele
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.
Aerospace

By Michael Bruno
Astra Space and Terran Orbital are the latest public space startups to bow out.
Commercial Space

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

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

By Guy Norris
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.
Sustainability

By Tony Osborne
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.
Aircraft & Propulsion

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

Aerospace

By Michael Bruno
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.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Sean Broderick
The company is working on changing long-established priorities that valued speed over quality.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain