Aerospace

BOEING forecasts (as part of CMO announced in July) demand in Middle East for 2,980 aircraft (1,290 widebodies) worth $765b over next 20 years to

AVIATION WEEK NETWORK forecasts (preliminary) delivery in Asia-Pacific/China of 6,454 new aircraft worth $923b over the next 10 years, increasing

KAMAN completed acquisition of Parker-Hannifin's Aircraft Wheel & Brake Division, OH, which supports >100 platforms.

GKN AEROPSACE completed its largest structural titanium additive manufacturing (AM) demonstration to date with production of an 8-ft (2.5-meter)

James Crane to Senior Vice President and General Manager-Americas Services & Support of Parker Meggitt.

PRATT & WHITNEY is establishing a technology accelerator in Singapore for developing automation, inspection, connected factory and digital twin

As the traditional summer travel season in the Northern Hemisphere came to a close in early September, analysts who cover aerospace and defense were paying more attention to rising energy costs, especially in Europe.

ES-30 will fly short routes on batteries, with hybrid system for reserve requirements and extended range.

Brian Binnie, who clinched the $10 million Ansari XPrize for the Paul Allen-Scaled Composites team that built the SpaceShipOne reusable suborbital spacecraft, has died, his family announced on Sept. 18.

Ralf Gust to Managing Director of Hamburg Aviation, Germany.

HONEYWELL has Gulf Air contract to provide its Forge Flight Efficiency software.

GRAIC pushed back first flight of C929 to 2030, seven years off schedule.

TOPCAST was selected by Aviation Devices & Electronic Components (Av-DEC) as exclusive distributor of its corrosion-prevention products, including HI

The advanced air mobility industry’s publicly traded companies in the AAM Composite showed a 7% increase in average price for the five days beginning Sept. 13 and ending Sept. 19 over the previous five-day period.

Sept. 20-22—MRO Asia Pacific, Aviation Week Network www.aviationweek.com/Events

When Embraer launched its advanced air mobility efforts, the company took a slightly different tack.

German state fund WSF has sold its last stakes in Lufthansa. Now the real work to reposition the airline can begin.

Detroit show debut for eVTOL; Compact rotary hybrid engine; Fuselage-integrated hydrogen tank; and Air Force targets autonomy innovation.

PROPONENT was named by Amsafe Bridport as exclusive distributor in Asia Pacific (now global) of cargo restraint/fire protection/safety solutions.

GOGO agreed to repurchase 1.5m shares from BlackRock for $18.3m, dropping BlackRock's stake to under 4.9% meeting its stipulated threshold.

Gregory Davis, President of Eviation, Arlington, WA, was also named Chief Executive Officer.

GEVO broke ground on its first commercial-scale SAF production facility (NZ1) in Lake Preston, SD; official construction is slated to begin in 2023.

ROLLS-ROYCE completed sale of ITP AERO, Spain to investor consortium led by Bain Capital Private Equity, at an enterprise value of €1.8b; sale

SpaceWERX awarded startup ThinkOrbital a Small Business Technology Transfer contract to study how the company’s autonomous robotic arm assembly and electron beam welding system might be used for in-space service assembly and manufacturing.

Los Angeles-based aviation company Skyryse has appointed Will Fulton as vice president of Product and Marketing.