Aerospace

ADSE and FOKKER SERVICES GROUP formed partnership to focus on product and business development, project execution, sharing engineering capabilities

Bridger Aerospace is the first customer for Aurora Flight Sciences' Skiron-X .

Pete Bunce, General Aviation Manufacturers Association president and CEO, outlined the multiple challenges and threats that business aircraft manufacturers are facing at the Corporate Jet Investor conference.

Building on lessons from the PW1100G, Pratt & Whitney’s expanded Advantage test and pre-production readiness program is targeting a smoother entry into service.

With an eye on contested logistics, service officials want more capable mobility aircraft sooner than originally planned.

SAFRAN reports y-o-y sales increase of 29.9% to €4.85b in 3Q22. Propulsion increased 25.9% driven by strong civil aftermarket; Equipment & Defense

TRIUMPH has 2-year order from a major engine Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) to supply 400 Auto Feather Units (AFU) for ATR 72s that provide

EATON AEROSPACE earned $185m on $768m sales in 3Q22 vs $164m on $745m in 3Q21; operating margins were 24%.

EHANG, China and HAECO signed MOU to cooperate in multiple areas, such as manufacturing/assembly, continued airworthiness, digital platforms, aircraft

MECAER AVIATION GROUP was selected by Archer Aviation to supply the landing gear for its eVTOL aircraft.

HOWMET AEROSPACE had $80m net income on $1.4b sales in 3Q22 vs $27m on $1.3b in 3Q21; it has $454m cash.

AAM stocks rose an average 3% in the week ending Oct. 31, but did not keep pace with the 6% increase recorded by the broad-based S&P 500.

UPS Flight Forward, the package carrier’s uncrewed aircraft division, is looking ahead to a vertical takeoff and landing demonstration flight direct to a UPS center using Beta Technologies’ Alia-250.

A triple-core Falcon Heavy, currently the most powerful rocket operating today, lifted off from a fog-shrouded Kennedy Space Center on Nov. 1 on a challenging and classified mission for the U.S. Space Force.

German urban air mobility startup Volocopter has secured an additional $182 million in funding, with Saudi Arabian smart city Neom and Hong Kong-based GLy Capital Management as new investors.

The RAF is to emphasize low-cost capability as it begins to re-explore its Lightweight Affordable Novel Combat Aircraft (LANCA) work after canceling its Mosquito demonstrator during the summer.

As well as a launch provider, UK-based Orbex will now become a launch site operator with assistance from Jacobs.

Upcoming flight trials by Universal Hydrogen mark a key milestone on the road to zero-carbon-emission air travel.

New research shows China’s growing capabilities to disrupt military satellite communications.

A320becomes hydrogen laboratory; China’s large cargo UAV; Embraer’s autonomous bizjet vision; and XPeng’s drive/fly eVTOL.

With its Claire technology agenda, MTU Aero Engines elaborates potential solutions to vastly reduce the climate impact and fuel consumption of aircraft engines.

The Air Force Research Laboratory is developing an interface standard it hopes will be adopted by commercial industry, too.

NorthStar Earth & Space’s initial three space situational awareness satellites are scheduled to launch into orbit in mid-2023.

Slovenian manufacturer Pipistrel, now part of Textron Aviation, announced on Oct. 31 that it has delivered the first Velis Electro electric airplane in Canada.

Self-piloted recreational flights over the Hudson and East Rivers in New York could begin as early as 2023 using Lift Aircraft’s single-seat, semi-autonomous Hexa electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicle.