Aerospace

HEICO FLIGHT SUPPORT earned $66m on $306m sales for three months ended April 30 vs $35m on $230m a year ago.

VOLTAERO plans in June to start sustainable aviation demo flights of Cassio electric-hybrid regional aircraft at Eindhoven Airport in the Netherlands.

TORAY teamed with Bell Textron to support new National Center for Advanced Materials Performance (NCAMP) design allowable dataset for Toray's 3960

COTESA, Germany selected Airborne to supply a robotic production system to automate its edge sealing operation for complex, 3D composite parts.

As Lilium wraps up the preliminary design review for its Lilium Jet, the Germany startup has released a new concept image showing the latest configuration of its electric vertical takeoff and landing regional air taxi.

Ground infrastructure will have to evolve to accommodate eVTOLs.

Mubadala’s MRO subsidiary Sanad, signed an MoU with USA’s Triumph Group, at the Global Aerospace Summit in Abu Dhabi today, with an agreement to collaborate on the provision of next-generation engine MRO capabilities in the UAE.

Qatar Airways corporate aviation division, Qatar Executive showed it is on-message for the sector’s sustainability push when it flew in its flagship jet London Luton Airport to Geneva for the EBACE show.

As it took over FlightAware, Collins stood up its Connected Aviation Solutions division.

Despite extensive promotion of sustainable aviation fuels, FBOs and airports report that, often, captains remain reluctant to put SAF into their aircraft.

Hybrid Dash 8 batteries; Nuclear-powered spacecraft; Inside Lilium’s eVTOL; Infrared-welded thermoplastics; Forming antennas in space.

JETNET, NY and FLASH SCIENTIFIC TECHNOLOGY, GA formed partnership for AI lightning prediction technology.

SATCOM DIRECT, ONEWEB and QEST teamed to progress development of an Electronic Phased Array antenna to support OneWeb’s advancing mobility services

SINE DRACO AVIATION TECHNOLOGY expanded its AS9100 Rev. D quality management standard certifications to its facilities in Nanchang/Shanghai.

LILIUM, Germany teamed with Honeywell and DENSO to co-develop the Lilium Jet’s electric motor to power its engines.

GE AVIATION completed successful testing of its Passport engine using 100% Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF).

Nuno Taborda to Chief Executive Officer of magniX, Everett, WA.

The Outpost Mars Demo-1 payload, an on-orbit metal cutting robotic arm, is being prepared to launch aboard SpaceX’s Transporter 5 rideshare flight on May 25.

Newly publicly traded Eve Holdings, the Embraer spinoff, boosted the Advanced Air Mobility Composite Index dramatically in its second week of trading.

MagniX of Everett, Washington, has named Nuno Taborda as CEO following the abrupt departure of Roei Ganzarski in January.

With AAM operations set to begin in 2024-25, the emerging industry is moving quickly to address infrastructure requirements.

As the AAM OEMs adjust to changes the FAA has made to how it will certify the aircraft, remaining AAM building blocks are taking shape.

It is to everyone's advantage that there are a multiplicity of methods of getting to a sustainable aviation ecosystem, the panelists agreed, and "we have to stay motivated and we have to stay determined" to get there.

Slovenian aircraft manufacturer Pipistrel, now under Textron ownership, plans to grow its workforce and accelerate development of new products, including the Nuuva hybrid-electric uncrewed cargo aircraft.

GE Aviation has ground-tested its Passport long-range business-jet engine, the powerplant for the Bombardier Global 7500 and new 8000, on 100% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) for the first time.