Aerospace

Offshore helicopter industry leaders tell Aviation Week about the challenges they face as growth returns after a prolonged downturn.

Ten years after MH370 and 15 years from AF447, industry is closing safety gaps spotlighted by those two accidents.

Collaboration defines the operational role of a new class of autonomous combat systems as well a new model for foreign industry partners.

Fully funded and hardware-rich, Blue Origin readies for orbital operations.

Comac presented the C919 at an international air show for the first time. It is likely the first step in a long journey to commercial success abroad.

Flight directors at Intuitive Machines’ mission control center were working to refine the signal from its Nova-C lander, which touched down on the Moon Feb. 22.

After reentering the atmosphere and deploying its parachute, Varda Space Industries’ space capsule touched down at the Utah Test and Training Range on Feb. 21.

UNITED opened new 150,000 sq ft building at its flight training center in Denver with 12 simulator bays (six filled to date); facility now has 46 FFSs.

THYSSENKRUPP AEROSPACE has MOU from France's Mecachrome Group to extend its material management solutions program, including the supply of cut-to-size aluminum plates to France and North Africa, for another five years.

Drew McEwen to Chief Commercial Officer, based in Florida, of AURA AERO.

GAL AVIATION received repayable contribution of C$1m from Govt of Canada for equipment acquisition/intl. marketing.

ROLLS-ROYCE reports its Civil Aerospace business earned £850m on £7.4b revenues in 2023 vs £143m on £5.7b in 2022. It delivered 458 (262 large) engines vs 355 (190 large) and handled 1,227 LTSA shop visits vs 1,044 in 2022.

COLLINS AEROSPACE has added Flight Profile Optimization (FPO) solution to its FlightHub offering for data analysis for more efficient route planning.

FACC earned €17.5m in 2023 (in line with guidance) on 22.8% higher y-o-y revenues; it projects 10-15% growth in 2024.

COLLINS AEROSPACE was selected by Air India to supply advanced avionics hardware for 140 737 MAXs.

Elizabeth Lund to Senior Vice President of Quality of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Seattle.

Mike Fleming to Senior Vice President and General Manager-Aircraft Programs of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Seattle.

The aviation industry is different for hybrid propulsion, advocates say.

Joby Aviation has announced completion of the third stage of the FAA’s five-step aircraft type certification process.

Despite losing the energy market, Airbus has sold about 100 H225s in five years and aims to repeat that before the turn of the decade.

Requiring manufacturers to pay a third of the cost and then suddenly canceling a program results in hundreds of millions of dollars in lost funding.

China’s Comac has provided more details of the stretched and shortened variants of its C919 single-aisle family at Singapore Airshow.

Taking technologies from demonstrator programs like UltraFan, Rolls-Royce aims to significantly improve the durability of its latest Trent widebody engines.

JetZero says it is poised to begin flight tests of a subscale version of its full-scale blended wing body multirole demonstrator in the next few weeks.

DOVETAIL ELECTRIC AVIATION began testing integrated hydrogen fuel-cell powerplant for flight testing on a King Air.