Aerospace

Boeing delivered 35 aircraft in August, including its first 787s in more than a year, but 737 MAX deliveries are not ramping up as anticipated.

Hybrid-electric testing; Australian eVTOL; Delivery drone certified; AAM micro-weather; Faster LEO cleanup.

New satellite technologies are expected to enable more accurate forecasting of severe weather phenomena.

WENCOR was named by AMETEK Sensors and Fluid Management Systems as exclusive distributor of its sensors for global military/govt aftermarket.

Eve Holding helped push the AAM Stock Composite up by 2% for the five market trading days ending Sept. 12 when compared to the previous five-day period.

De Havilland Canada is providing engineering support to modify a Dash 8-100, replacing one of its two P&WC PW120-class turboprops with a 2-megawatt parallel hybrid-electric powertrain.

VEHICLE Montreal-based Limosa is preparing to fly a 10% scale model of its LimoConnect, a seven-seat electric vertical-takoff-and-landing aircraft

Finland has opened the LIFT Future Aerospace Center, which aims to strengthen aviation research, development and innovation in the country through public and private cooperation.

U.S. Air Force innovation arm AFWerx is planning an Autonomy Prime program and proposing an Autonomy Proving Ground to test the technologies.

The challenges involved in electrifying aviation powertrains remain considerable, but an important developmental corner may have been turned, according to Rolls-Royce.

Sensor manufacturer Teledyne FLIR has unveiled a commercial drone targeted for the infrastructure-inspection and other markets.

U.S. startup Electra.aero has passed a key milestone toward development of its electric short-takeoff-and-landing regional aircraft, completing a fully integrated ground test of its hybrid-electric propulsion system.

Against a backdrop of tough geopolitical and economic issues, Director General Josef Aschbacher has to convince the agency’s 22 member states that those difficulties are precisely why they need to invest more into space.

Virgin Galactic is reviewing initial responses to RFPs for structural and systems components for the company’s planned new Delta-class spaceplanes as it looks ahead to serial production.

Boeing continues to evaluate and develop improvements to the aircraft’s aerodynamics and flight control system ahead of long-delayed certification tests of the 777-9.

SAFRAN entered into exclusive talks with THALES to acquire its aeronautical electrical systems activities, which would include to position itself as

Solenne Terral to Vice President-Quality and Compliance of Safran Landing Systems.

Victoria Foy to President of Safran Seats (effective January 1).

COLLINS AEROSPACE opened new $18m wind tunnel at Rockford, IL for its Ram Air Turbine product family to streamline testing and certification process

AIRBUS delivered 39 aircraft (33 A320 Family; two A330neo; four A350s) in August vs 40 (five A220s; 33 A320 Family; two A350s) in August 2021; it has

An investment group has acquired storied manufacturer MD Helicopters, which entered bankruptcy protection earlier this year, and installed a new leadership team.

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

On its 75th anniversary, the service looks to a future using increased autonomy and a further migration of key missions to space.

Here is an overview of 10 of the service’s top priorities as it looks to shape its future force.

NASA has awarded TruWeather Solutions a $750,000 Phase II Small Business Innovation Research contract to test a network of ground-based weather sensors in Hampton, Virginia.