Aerospace

After the boom years leading up to 2019, in which airlines attained and maintained record profitability, the global COVID-19 upended everything. Over

What now in the post-pandemic world? During several recent trade shows, webinars and Aviation Week interviews, advisors and analysts have shed light on where they think industry giants are going next and why.

Blue Origin plans to send human crewmembers to suborbital space for the first time on July 20 on its New Shepard rocket, the company said in a May 5 statement.

Sergio Bustamante, Director of Engineering for Customer Support of Boeing, was presented with 2021 Nuts and Bolts Award by A4A.

Bill Williams, Manager of Regulatory Compliance/FAA of FedEx, was presented with 2021 Nuts and Bolts Award by A4A.

TT ELECTRONICS has AS9100D certification for quality at its Eastleigh, UK site.

FACC earned €0.4m on €118.1m revenues in 1Q21 vs €11.3m on €195.4m in 1Q20; it sees aviation market stabilizing in 2021.

SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS had $172m net loss on $901m revenues in 1Q21 vs $163m loss on $1.1b in 1Q20, and ended quarter with $1.4b in cash. It delivered 269

Paul Bolton to Chief Operating Officer of First Aviation Services, Westport, CT.

CFM INTERNATIONAL says LEAP fleet has surpassed 10m engine flight hours.

Wisk Aero has agreed to operate up to 30 autonomous air taxis on Blade Urban Air Mobility’s U.S. network.

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) released March 2021 data for global air cargo markets showing that air cargo demand continued to outperform pre-COVID levels (March 2019) with demand up 4.4%. Middle Eastern carriers see a 9.2% rise in cargo volumes in March.

On Thursday, April 29, the Kouga and Swinburne nature reserves in South Africa welcomed three lions, one lioness and three cubs. This involved a three-day trip with the help of Qatar Airways Cargo from Kiev to Doha and Johannesburg so that the lions could walk on grass for the first time in their lives.

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) released March 2021 data for global air cargo markets showing that air cargo demand continued to outperform pre-COVID levels (March 2019) with demand up 4.4%. African airlines’ cargo demand in March increased 24.6%.

London City Airport flight operations are now being directed from 70 mi. away.

Scalable autonomy framework development supports airborne agent that can react to unanticipated situations for a wide range of aircraft.

Launch vehicle developer Firefly Aerospace has raised $75 million in a Series A venture capital round, the Los Angeles startup announced May 4, while seed investor Noosphere Ventures sold $100 million of its holdings to investors on the sideline.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center May 4 on its 26th mission delivering small Starlink internet connectivity satellites in low Earth orbit.

BOEING was named first foundational partner of Virginia Tech Innovation Campus, VA with $50m commitment to create the most diverse graduate technology

RE:BUILD MANUFACTURING, MA acquired CUTTING DYNAMICS, OH (metallic/composite structures and assemblies).

Startup Eta Space is to demonstrate technologies for propellant depots in space under a NASA contract to build a test payload for launch into low Earth orbit in late 2023 on a Rocket Lab Photon satellite.

Sierra Nevada Corp.’s (SNC) commercial space enterprise plans to land, service, and launch the company’s winged reusable Dream Chaser from Cape Canaveral on cargo missions to the International Space Station.

Scottish fuel-cell specialist Hy-Hybrid Energy is working with an undisclosed partner on a hybrid-electric propulsion system for aircraft that combines a gas turbine with a battery and a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) that operates on jet fuel.

Brian Bentley to Chief Executive Officer-Aerostructures Segment of Cadence Aerospace, Anaheim, CA.

Olivier Jarrault to Chief Executive Officer of Cadence Aerospace, Anaheim, CA.