Aerospace

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.

Aviation Week editors ride along with Eve co-CEO Andre Stein to learn more about the company’s preparations for eVTOL operations.

ZeroAvia has conducted medium-power taxi testing of its Dornier 228 hydrogen propulsion testbed at Kemble in the UK.

Eviation Aircraft is set to begin high-speed taxi tests of the all-electric Alice aircraft in coming days as part of final preparations for first flight, says the company’s new CEO, Greg Davis.

The Secretary General of the African Airlines Association (AFRAA), Abdérahmane Berthé, has been in talks as a bid to foster closer engagement with member airlines in Nigeria.

Royal Jordanian hosted the ninety-second Executive Committee meeting of the Arab Air Carriers’ Organization (AACO) in Amman.

Qatar Airways Group CEO, Akbar Al Baker addressed the attendees of the Aviation Africa Summit in Kigali, Rwanda, highlighting the airline’s present and future in Africa.

Companies say satellites could be refurbished and reused, addressing both costs and environmental concerns.

Labor market, general inflation and rising production rates are making the recovery a lot harder than most envisioned.

AeroVironment has unveiled a visual-based navigation system for its Puma 2 AE and Puma 3 AE reconnaissance drones for situations when GPS signals are jammed or disrupted.

Electric Power System has secured another battery pack supply contract in the emerging electric aircraft market with its selection to provide the energy storage system for Ampaire’s hybrid-electric Eco Caravan conversion of the Cessna Caravan single-turboprop utility aircraft.

PEXCO, GA acquired PERFORMANCE PLASTICS, OH (injection molding).

Live drone flights under a European project to validate the use of autonomous aircraft for emergency medical services are planned to begin in Stavanger, Norway, on Sept. 21.

The FAA has awarded Raytheon Intelligence & Space an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract with a ceiling of $375 million over 10 years to upgrade the Wide Area Augmentation System space-based precision navigation system.

Detroit startup Airspace Experience Technologies has completed the first hover flight of its proof-of-concept Sigma Six, a tiltwing electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicle with interchangeable plug-and-play payloads for defense, emergency response, cargo and passenger transport missions.

Air Canada believes its new ES-30 electric regional aircraft could open up new market opportunities within Canada.

The goal of having a European constellation enter into service in late 2024 appears ambitious at best.

Air Canada has placed a preorder for 30 of the aircraft, now called the ES-30.

Russia and China had envisaged first flight for the widebody in 2023 and deliveries to start between 2025 and 2027.

The testing marks a major step toward the U.S. startup’s goal of developing a fully reusable, rapid turn-around rocket vehicle.

A virtual integrated aircraft approach helps accelerate aircraft systems engineering. By implementing a model-based design method, you master the aircraft systems integration complexity, from component to full system.

The industry is leaning on technology to handle pandemic recovery, but is that just further hollowing out the workforce?