Aerospace

Emirates has reaffirmed its long-standing partnership with the Maldives by extending an MoU with the Ministry of Tourism earlier this week.

Airbus Helicopters has delivered the first five-bladed H145 to Milestone Aviation and Al-Sharqiya Aviation, which will operate the helicopter in the Sultanate of Oman for Helicopter Emergency Medical Services missions.

The Boeing Company has reported third-quarter revenue of $15.3 billion, driven by higher commercial aircraft and services volume.

Forget offshoring or reshoring—the new trend in the U.S. defense is intershoring.

DE HAVILLAND finalized new 3-year contract with Unifor members, ending 3-month strike at Downsview facility in Toronto.

PAN AM FLIGHT ACADEMY says recently acquired 757-200 full-flight simulator (RB211s) has been installed in Miami and ready for operation (SPNWS; Aug 6)

FLIGHTSAFETY INTERNATIONAL was selected by Breeze Airways to supply A220 and E190 full flight simulators (FFS) and FTDs for delivery in 2022; as part

CRANE AEROSPACE & ELECTRONICS earned $33m on $169m sales in 3Q21 vs $25m on $157m in 3Q20; it has $479m backlog.

Wing is expanding its drone delivery operations from smaller towns into more complex urban areas with plans to begin on-demand store-to-door deliveries in metropolitan Dallas-Fort Worth.

Embraer subsidiary Eve Air Mobility will launch a month-long simulated urban-air-mobility (UAM) trial in Brazil on Nov. 8, connecting the affluent coastal suburb of Barra de Tijuca with Rio de Janeiro’s Galeão International Airport.

JW HILL CAPITAL acquired PERFORMANCE PLASTICS, CA (precision-engineered composite aerostructure components) and ANGELES COMPOSITES TECHNOLOGIES, WA

SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSE opened 4,580 sq m R&D facility in Valence to develop solutions for more electric aircraft and space/defense markets.

LUFTHANSA SYSTEMS was selected by Universal Avionics to provide Lido FMS navigation data as the primary source for its navigational databases.

TRIUMPH INTERIORS has Boeing contract to supply air distribution system composite ducting and composite cockpit assemblies for 777X, plus the thermal

THALES reported €3.1b in aerospace sales for first nine months of 2021 vs €2.9b a year ago; order intake was €3.7b vs €2.3b.

In July 2019, research and development center Tecnalia in Spain’s Basque region conducted tethered indoor test flights of the prototype of an unusual “drone of drones” design for an autonomous air taxi. Now Spanish unmanned aircraft services provider Umiles has acquired the design from Tecnalia with the goal of producing the first 100% domestically developed electric-vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) vehicle.

Italian and French airport operators have formed a company, Urban Blue, with international ambitions to design, build and manage the vertiport infrastructure for urban air mobility.

Japan successfully launched the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries H-IIA rocket on the morning of Oct. 26 local time from the Tanegashima Space Center.

Dubai Festival City Mall and DC Aviation Al-Futtaim have partnered to launch the Al-Futtaim Festival of Arts competition.

The Indian government has signed a share purchase agreement with Tata Sons, for divestment of the government's stake and management control in its national carrier Air India.

Aviance Ghana has implemented CHAMP’s Cargospot Handling solution.