Aerospace

By Irene Klotz, Guy Norris
SpaceShipTwo returns to suborbital space after 27-month hiatus.
Commercial Space

By Graham Warwick
Electric Power Systems has unveiled its first certified commercial battery system for electric-powered aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

QUESTEK INNOVATIONS, IL received Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) awards from Office of Naval Research to develop software tool to improve
Aerospace

By Graham Warwick
Constellation operator OneWeb is to lead a consortium of UK companies in developing a next-generation beam-hopping low Earth orbit communications satellite.
Commercial Space

By Thierry Dubois
The Court of Justice of the European Union has dismissed OHB System’s request to reverse the European Space Agency’s decision to exclude the company from a program creating the second generation of Galileo navigation satellites.
Commercial Space

By Graham Warwick
UK vertiport developer Skyports has signed agreements to help develop infrastructure for advanced air mobility in Ireland and South Korea.
Advanced Air Mobility

FALCO, AZ broke ground on 25,000 sq ft manufacturing facility near Phoenix for producing hard alloy aluminum shapes, rod, bar and forging stock.
Aerospace

JETTAINER was selected by Etihad Cargo to manage its cool containers under cool&fly program. It has managed/maintained Etihad’s ULD fleet since 2011.
Aerospace

PwC

PwC reports the global aerospace and defense industry earned $25b on $697b revenues in 2020 vs $65b on $754b in 2019, down primarily due to impacts of
Aerospace

FAA

FAA says Boeing will pay at least $17m in penalties to settle enforcement cases on 737. It found equipment was installed on 759 737s with sensors not
Aerospace

AIRBUS updated suppliers with plans to produce an average of 45 A320 Family aircraft per month in 4Q21, increasing to 64 by 2Q23 and possibly 70 by
Aerospace

By Graham Warwick
Volocopter and Near Earth Autonomy are to test autonomous flight technology on the VoloDrone unmanned cargo aircraft. The team plans a beyond-visual-line-of-sight capability demonstration in Munich in 2022.
Aerospace

By Joe Anselmo, Jens Flottau, Guy Norris
Both Airbus and Boeing are looking at big boosts in production of their narrowbody jets. But with some regions of the world still closed to outsiders, the widebody market is a different story.
Aerospace

By Tony Osborne
Airbus Helicopters has performed the first retrofit to convert a four-blade H145 twin-engine light rotorcraft into a five-blade model.
Aerospace

During the virtual element of the 28th edition of Arabian Travel Market (ATM), Arival’s Co-Founder and CEO Douglas Quinby shared exclusive Arival research carried out with 1500 respondents on the outlook for tours, activities, attractions, and key trends shaping the sector’s revival post-COVID-19 pandemic.
Aerospace

Jettainer, a unit load device (ULD) management services provider, has extended its long-standing management partnership with Etihad Cargo to manage the carrier’s cool containers from May 1, 2021.
Aerospace

Lufthansa has been awarded ‘Best European Airline Serving the Middle East’ at the Business Traveller Awards for the second time in a row.
Aerospace

This edition of TATV Newsround looks at the growing threat of bird strikes, specifically in Nigeria - airports editor Chloe Greenbank talks to the experts about wildlife management.
Aerospace

By Irene Klotz
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket delivered the 29th batch of Starlink satellites into orbit on May 26 as the company expanded beta trials of its high-speed internet service to Belgium and the Netherlands.
Commercial Space

By Graham Warwick
Validating the quiet supersonic performance of NASA’s X-59 QueSST low-boom flight demonstrator will require precise measurement of the shock waves generated by the aircraft and how they propagate through the atmosphere to the ground.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Europe’s aviation regulator believes commercial use of electric air taxis could begin by 2024-25, but that it will take at least five more years to enable autonomous passenger transport, the holy grail for ubiquitous and affordable urban air mobility.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
U.S. startup Exosonic has completed low-speed wind-tunnel tests of its concept for a low-boom supersonic airliner.
Aerospace

Emirates has been voted 'Best Airline Worldwide' for the eighth consecutive time by the Business Traveller Middle East Awards 2021.
Aerospace

By Kevin Michaels
Model-based systems engineering is emerging as a potential solution to aerospace’s slow, costly processes.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Jens Flottau, Guy Norris
Oversupply to market has yielded big, young in-service fleets, which means the current lull has, in part, been a self-inflicted wound.
Aircraft & Propulsion