Aerospace

Embraer’s urban air mobility spinoff Eve UAM will list publicly on the New York Stock Exchange on May 10 after closing a merger with blank-check company Zanite Acquisition that raised less funding than hoped for.

Maritime Launch Services, which aims to establish Canada’s first indigenous space launch from Nova Scotia, and rocket manufacturing startup Reaction Dynamics of Quebec are partnering for a 2023 debut.

Virgin Galactic is slipping its forecasted start of revenue-generating commercial operations to the first quarter of 2023 instead of this year, executives announced May 5 while revealing the space tourism provider’s latest quarterly loss.

Parallel Flight Technologies of La Selva Beach, California, has named Chris Krajewski to lead its newly established European operations.

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Spire of San Francisco signed a contract to provide weather data collected by its satellites to Gale Force, a maritime routing software company.

Hydrogen-electric propulsion startup ZeroAvia has taken delivery of a second Dornier 228 regional turboprop.

As part of preparations for the introduction of urban air mobility operations in Brazil, Embraer and sister company Eve UAM have evaluated a set of autonomous flight technologies around Sao Jose dos Campos using helicopters.

The CEO of Avio does not see any problem in the medium term regarding supply of the RD-843 engines that power its upgraded Vega C light launcher, despite their Ukrainian origin.

A supersonic military drone will take precedence until civil demand for a low-boom supersonic transport matures.

First-quarter 2022 financial reports from Airbus and Boeing were snapshots of the different fates the two leading airframers face. Listen in as Aviation Week editors Jens Flottau, Guy Norris and Michael Bruno discuss the increasingly diverging paths within the duopoly.

Boeing remains a going concern, but it cannot shake the specter of an existential crisis. A resolution may be far from clear.

What’s the outlook for IFE? Will all airline passengers be able to stream with their own devices eventually?

Flight tests of Roc build on reliability of baseline Boeing 747 engines, gear and system components as test campaign intensifies.

The development phase for the Army's Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft has been extended four years due to COVID-19 supply chain delays.

BOEING is moving its corporate headquarters from Chicago to Arlington, VA and also planning to establish research & technology hub in the region.

Norway is investing in a mini-constellation of maritime reconnaissance satellites to support surveillance in the High North.

UPS’s drone airline subsidiary UPS Flight Forward has embarked on a strategy of deploying autonomous and remotely operated aircraft across a range of use cases from medical delivery drones to large feeder aircraft.

Small French manufacturers Elixir Aircraft and TurboTech plan to develop a cryogenic hydrogen propulsion system for light aircraft under a project supported by the French government’s post-COVID-19 recovery plan.

NASA is preparing its X-57 Maxwell all-electric experimental aircraft for its first flight test this summer.