Aerospace

Vertical Aerospace has selected Leonardo’s aerostructures division to design, test and manufacture the carbon-composite fuselage for its planned VX4 air taxi.

To promote the growth of the aviation sector in its Eastern Economic Corridor, Thailand will join the Asian airshow circuit by introducing the Thailand International Airshow in 2025.

Potential military missions for the aircraft include “island hopping and distributed cargo logistics in the Indo-Pacific theater or operations in areas with limited infrastructure like Africa,” an Electra executive says.

The air cargo industry needs to ramp up digitalization, but it’s a slow path.

Steadicopter, a provider in Rotary Unmanned Aerial Systems (RUAS), has unveiled the Black Eagle 50H at the Singapore Airshow.

The investment fully funds E-Space’s Beta 1 launch of its first test satellites in March, as well as its Beta 2 launch “later” this year, the company says.

Rolls-Royce is continuing to produce Trent 1000 and Trent XWB fan blades in Singapore at maximum volume, despite depressed demand for widebody aircraft in recent years as a result of the pandemic.

Hydrogen powertrain iron bird; sea-skimming electric seagliders; UK space sustainability projects; ski resort eSTOL; SAF from microalgae.

Preexisting staffing issues are coming back quickly during a recovery that is faster than anticipated.

JOBY AVIATION, CA teamed with SK TELECOM to develop air taxi service in Korea using its 5-seat eVTOL aircraft.

James Shih to Vice President of Supply Chain Management of Velo3D, Campbell, CA.

SOUTHEAST AEROSPACE has FAA STC to install its new mission console (on existing seat tracks) in Cessna 206H.

Chinese-owned Dornier Seawings has acquired the rights to a light amphibious aircraft that it plans to produce alongside the 12-passenger Seastar CD2 flying boat.

South Korea’s ambition to launch urban air mobility services in 2025 has been boosted by the signing of a strategic collaboration agreement between air taxi developer Joby Aviation and Korean telecommunications giant SK Telecom.

BOEING ordered 2m gallons of blended SAF from EPIC Fuels to power its Commercial Airplanes operations in Washington/South Carolina in 2022.

QUEBEC (US$300m) and AIRBUS (US$900m) agreed to jointly invest US$1.2b in currently unprofitable A220 program to support growth; companies also agreed

EATON AEROSPACE earned $580m on $2.6b sales in 2021 vs $414m on $2.2b in 2020; increase in sales was attributed to acquisition of COBHAM MISSION

After Denmark’s Prime Minister in January set the goal of all domestic aviation being fossil-free by 2030, a massive Danish project to produce sustainable fuels from renewable energy is investigating whether it can begin jet fuel production in 2025, two years earlier than planned.

AFRAA and Kenya Airways will hold the 10th Aviation Stakeholders’ Convention in Nairobi between May 8-10.

Textron Aviation has rolled out the first production unit of the twin-engine, large-utility turboprop, the Cessna SkyCourier.

Saudi Arabia’s World Defense Show has officially sold out all exhibition space. Visitors have until February 10th to register for the inaugural event by visiting www.worlddefenseshow.com .

This webinar took place on February 4, 2022. During the Apollo program, NASA created physical copies of rockets that were able to help engineers solve

Suppliers will sit between a rock and hard place, as list prices fall and manufacturing costs rise.

U.S. regional airline Mesa Air Group has invested in startup Regent and signed a letter of intent to purchase 200 of its sea-skimming electric seagliders for overwater routes between coastal cities.

The UK is moving to bolster its burgeoning sustainable space sector with government funding for projects to advance capabilities ranging from situational awareness to debris removal.