Aerospace

This week’s Flight Friday looks at the "Big 4" U.S. operators—feeder network is not included in this analysis—with the MRO Americas event fast approaching.

The commission and major sustainable aviation fuel producer send reassurance on mandate volumes.

The company is confident a spate of hardware issues and oversights are behind it.

Boeing’s new leadership in Commercial Airplanes and at the top are likely just the beginning of major changes at the manufacturing giant.

Sweden is beginning to ponder what follows the Gripen as it looks to preserve its national combat aircraft development capability.

TIDE ROCK acquired CABLENET AEROSPACE, which specializes in turnkey applications for GSE out of 20,000 sq ft facility in Denver.

PANASONIC AVIONICS was selected by Croatia Airlines to provide Ku-band satellite connectivity for 15 A220s on order.

AUTOFLIGHT, China delivered first 5-seat Prosperity all-electric eVTOL aircraft to undisclosed Japanese customer in preparation for demonstration eVTOL flights at the 2025 Osaka World Expo, as well as a wider AAM rollout in Japan.

Nicolas Behr to Vice President for Contracts of Safran Cabin.

Dr. Yuta Yamanoi to Managing Director of Instrument Systems, Munich.

The MoU is intended to enable collaboration to identify research, development, demonstration, and deployment opportunities for sustainable aviation technologies

AST SpaceMobile’s first batch of direct-to-cellular satellites will not be launched in the second quarter of this year as planned,

The project involves Thales, TXT and the Universite Laval.

Russia has restored its capability for high-resolution Earth mapping with the recent launch of the new Resurs-P observation satellite.

Thales has completed the acquisition of Cobham Aerospace Communications, thus obtaining crucial technology in secure broadband data links.

Flight tests of the Rolls-Royce Pearl 10X engine for the ultra-long-range Dassault Falcon 10X business jet have begun following delivery of the company’s Boeing 747-200 flying testbed fitted with the test engine to its Tucson facility in Arizona.

Demonstrators built under Clean Sky 2, the project’s predecessor, were exhibited at the annual forum as a source of motivation.

Two inconvienent truths about the tumult at Boeing.

Continuing an annual tradition dating back to 1957, Aviation Week Network editors honored a wide variety of industry accomplishments.

THALES completed previously announced acquisition of COBHAM AEROSPACE COMMUNICATIONS, France (avionics).

C&L AEROSPACE signed agreement with AVIAN Inventory Management to assist in marketing and selling inventory of 85,000 individual part numbers and >18m total parts for ERJ 145, E170, E190, EMB 120, Legacy, Phenom, and Predator.