Aerospace

Qatar Airways Cargo has extended its cool chain industry partnerships by joining Cool Chain Association (CCA), a non-profit organisation, effective 28 July 2021.

A book which addresses all the leadership challenges in a civil aviation company has been written by Dr Mark j Pierotti`s, commercial department director at Abu Dhabi Aviation.

Customcells will industrialize battery cells for mass production, a key step in Lilium’s plans to scale-up production capacity ahead of the aircraft’s planned commercial launch in 2024.

In a key step towards development of the planned follow-on seven-seater air taxi, Samad Aerospace has completed hover tests of its half-scale e-Starling all-electric prototype aircraft.

UNIFOR workers at Bombardier and De Havilland Canada went on strike on July 27 over pensions, use of contractors and erosion of bargaining unit work

Chinese autonomous air vehicle (AAV) startup EHang has begun operations at its newly commissioned production facility in Yunfu, around 100 mi. west of its Guangzhou headquarters.

AEM (AMETEK MRO), UK renewed its accreditation for JOSCAR (Joint Supply Chain Accreditation Register) for pre-qualification and compliance information

GE AVIATION earned $176m on $5.5b sales in 2Q21 vs $687m loss on $3.7b in 2Q20; it delivered 383 commercial engines (211 LEAPs) vs 362 (178) in 2Q20

HEXCEL had $2.2m net income on $320.3m sales in 2Q21 vs $1m net loss on $378.7m in 2Q20; civil aerospace sales fell 25%.

CRANE AEROSPACE & ELECTRONICS earned $31m on $158m sales in 2Q21 vs $20m on $157m in 2Q20.

David Paja to Chief Executive Officer of GKN Aerospace, UK (effective August 2021).

COLLINS AEROSPACE earned $506m on $4.5b sales in 2Q21 vs $317m loss on $4.2b in 2Q20. It says increase in sales was driven by a 24% increase in

PRATT & WHITNEY earned $112m on $4.3b sales in 2Q21 vs $457m loss on $3.5b in 2Q20; it delivered 672 engines (144 large commercial; 61 military; 467

BOEING was selected by United Aviate Academy to provide suite of training solutions, including JEPPESEN charts, for training next-gen United pilots.

CPaT was selected by Brazil's ANAC to provide distance learning solutions (general subjects/aircraft systems) for ATRs, E195, A320, A350, 737NG and

With eight issues of the Advanced Air Mobility Report under our belts, one of the staggering pieces of data we have encountered is the number of companies involved in the emerging market.

Electra.aero was founded on the premise that ultrashort-takeoff regional aircraft enabled by distributed electric propulsion would fly more payload longer distances than vertical-takeoff vehicles while still being able to operate from a similarly constrained urban footprint.

Automakers are eyeing the market, directly by developing eVTOL vehicles or indirectly by providing investment, expertise and suppliers.

The California-based electric air taxi developer has marked a key flight test milestone by flying a full-size S4 prototype to its design range of more than 150 mi. on a single charge.

FlightPlan: C-Suite Week, hosted by Inmarsat and APEX, aired a series of ‘no holds barred’ discussions with the CEOs of Qatar Airways, AirAsia, United Airlines, TAP Air Portugal and IATA last week.

Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) projects ranging from the capture of atmospheric carbon dioxide to processing of sewage have been shortlisted for funding under a UK government contest designed to promote alternative fuel production technologies at commercial scale.

Supersonic airliner developer Boom is evaluating a forward-looking vision system (FLVS) as part of preparations for flight tests of the XB-1 high-speed demonstrator as well as design planning for the follow-on full-scale Overture passenger aircraft.

TOPCAST AVIATION SUPPLIES, Hong Kong has expanded its distribution agreement with UK-based Conidia Bioscience (microbiological testing kits) to add

Marijus Ravoitis to Chief Executive Officer of BAA Training, Vilnius, Lithuania.

Russian Helicopters secured a launch customer for the Mi-171A3, a new offshore modification of the Mil Mi-171 heavy-transport rotorcraft. The manufacturer unveiled the new version at the ongoing MAKS 2021 airshow, where it signed an agreement with Russian gas monopoly Gazprom for these helicopters.