Aerospace

Marc Parent was awarded the Philip J. Klass Lifetime Achievement Award at Aviation Week's 65th annual Laureate Awards on Nov 3, 2022.
Aerospace

By Carole Rickard Hedden
Listening to analysts parse stock market performance as a follow-on to Nov. 4’s U.S. jobs report, higher unemployment rates equate to improvement—indicating some slack for companies struggling under a shortage of employees or supply chain problems stemming from labor shortages.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Irene Klotz
Intelsat is turning to Switzerland-based SWISSto12 to provide a small geostationary satellite outfitted with 12 Ku-band transponders for regional communications services.
Commercial Space

MOOG AIRCRAFT CONTROLS earned $123.6m on $1.3b sales for year ended October 1 vs $96.7m on $1.2b a year ago.
Aerospace

TURKISH CABIN INTERIOR SYSTEMS, TSI AVIATION SEATS and CORNEA are being merged by Turkish Airlines.
Aerospace

SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS announced private offering of $800m of senior secured first lien notes to repay debt and commenced cash offer for any and all of
Aerospace

WENCOR was selected by Korry Electronics as exclusive distributor in Asia (on top of Europe/Middle East/Americas) of human-machine interface solutions
Aerospace

INDRA agreed to acquire Selex ES' ATM business (navaids) from Leonardo.
Aerospace

HENSOLDT, Germany received EASA certification for new SferiRec LCR10 flight recorder for light aircraft, drones, business jets and light helicopters.
Aerospace

REBTECH, TX and AVEO ENGINEERING, Czech Republic formed partnership to provide night vision solutions and lighting products.
Aerospace

MONTE AIRCRAFT LEASING, UK signed LOI to purchase 40 modification kits from Cranfield Aerospace Solutions (CAeS) to convert Britten-Norman Islanders
Aerospace

ROLLS-ROYCE says large engine flying hours were 65% of 2019 levels for the four months to the end of October 2022.
Aerospace

TATA ADVANCED SYSTEMS, India extended manufacturing agreement with GE Aerospace for LEAP components.
Aerospace

EMBRAER delivered 10 E-Jets in 3Q22 vs nine in 3Q21, and 27 in first nine months of 2022 vs 32 a year ago; it has firm order backlog of 297 E-Jets
Aerospace

By Graham Warwick
Israel’s Gadfin Aero-Logistics Systems has secured a service contract from the country’s largest medical logistics company to operate an on-demand drone delivery network connecting all of the country’s major hospitals, flying medical supplies over a radius of up to 200 km (125 mi.).
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Australian electric air taxi startup AMSL Aero is among 12 projects that have been awarded federal government grants under the first round of the Emerging Aviation Technology Partnerships program.
Advanced Air Mobility

FAI Aviation Group, a global provider of mission-critical aviation services, is participating at this week’s Bahrain Airshow - some 20 years after it first set up operations in the region.
Aerospace

Embraer delivered 33 jets in the third quarter of 2022, of which 10 were commercial and 23 were executive jets (15 light and eight midsize).
Aerospace

By Guy Norris
Design is beginning on large-scale airframe modification programs that will convert two A380s into flying technology testbeds.
Aerospace

By Graham Warwick
Electric R44 milestone; Hamburg sustainability drive; Autonomous flight progress; eVTOLs for medical delivery; European detect-and-avoid.
Emerging Technologies

Aviation Week Staff
Brief news items of interest to advanced air mobility professionals.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Deliveries of the Aero2 tiltwing uncrewed medical delivery aircraft to Spright are planned to begin in 2025.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Merlin is developing the Merlin Pilot autonomous flight system and is working on FAA supplemental type certification of the capability, initially on the Cessna Caravan.
Emerging Technologies

This was with the participation of the Royal Saudi Air Force and forces of the UAE, Greece, Oman, France, Germany, India, the UK, the USA, and Australia.
Defense

By Jen DiMascio, Steve Trimble, Carole Rickard Hedden, Byron Callan
The industry is looking to digitalization to offset higher prices and workforce challenges.
Defense