Aerospace

AMETEK agreed to acquire Alabama-based ABACO SYSTEMS (open-architecture computing and electronic systems) from Veritas Capital for $1.35b.
Aerospace

Zimbabwe’s Gweru Airport and PLM Middle East announced a strategic partnership for Airport Development with a 176 million dollars investment plan at the 2021 Arab Aviation Summit (AAS).
Aerospace

By Lindsay Bjerregaard
Electric vertical lift startups, maintenance providers and infrastructure specialists are collaborating to tackle new challenges.
Aerospace & Defense

By Graham Warwick
Airbus flies 100% SAF; hybrid tests in UK; SAF from waste food; certifiable drone control; and more tech news.
Emerging Technologies

By Thierry Dubois
Airbus and Dassault try to reconcile views in thorny FCAS negotiations as a political deadline nears.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Maxim Pyadushkin
The first fully commercial space launch of the Russian Soyuz 2.1a vehicle in 2021, planned for March 20, is expected to orbit 38 various satellites from 18 countries into three different Sun-synchronous orbits.
Commercial Space

By Thierry Dubois
Ask the editors: Is it worthwhile to change aviation’s fuel infrastructure? The answer might be the use of LNG as a transition to SAF.
Aircraft & Propulsion

UNIVERSAL AVIONICS has EASA STC for its SBAS-FMS solution for ATR flight deck, selected by Danish Air Transport (DAT).
Aerospace

EMBRAER had US$731.9m net loss on US$3.8b revenues (29.6% commercial aviation) in 2020 vs $322.3m loss on $5.5b (40.9%) in 2019 and ended year with US
Aerospace

ARCH GLOBAL PRECISION acquired H. & S. SWANSONS' TOOL COMPANY, MI, which manufactures precision, complex machined parts from castings, forgings, bar
Aerospace

In 4Q20 Embraer delivered 28 commercial jets and 43 executive jets (23 light jets and 20 large jets), for a total of 44 commercial and 86 executive aircraft (56 light jets and 30 large jets) delivered in 2020.
Aerospace

By Jen DiMascio, Irene Klotz
Listen in as Nanoracks CEO Jeff Manber predicts that by the end of the year, private space companies will have more discretionary money to spend than the U.S. federal government.
Program Management

By Lee Hudson
The Pentagon is diversifying the U.S. early missile warning portfolio with a mix of satellite types and sizes in different orbits to prevent unwanted missile attacks.
Program Management

By Irene Klotz
Suborbital flights, tourist missions are not the allure for this adventure pilot.
Commercial Space

By Jens Flottau, Michael Bruno, Guy Norris
AerCap, the new leader in aircraft leasing, will be much larger than competitors and will have a strong say in future aircraft design.
Airlines & Lessors

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aerospace

By Irene Klotz
NASA’s Space Launch System core stage fired up its four Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-25 engines on March 18 for a critical, 8-min. integrated test ahead of the booster’s debut launch on the uncrewed Artemis I lunar mission.
Space

By Irene Klotz
With its Starlink broadband network now exceeding 1,200 satellites, SpaceX formalized an agreement with NASA to operate its megaconstellation on a noninterference basis with the International Space Station and other agency spacecraft in low Earth orbit.
Commercial Space

This webinar took place March 18, 2021, and was sponsored by Makino. The Biden Administration is reviewing some of its most important military
Defense

Michael Busby to Vice President of Sales of AeroParts Now, GA.
Aerospace

ISRAEL AEROSPACE INDUSTRIES had record US$133m net income on US$4.2b sales in 2020 vs $90 on $4.1b in 2019.
Aerospace

Thomas C. Hutton to Chief Executive Officer of GAMMA Aerospace, Gardena, CA.
Aerospace

AIRBUS, DLR, ROLLS-ROYCE and NESTE launched ECLIF3 study to look into the effects of 100% SAF on aircraft emissions and performance using Trent
Aerospace

By Graham Warwick
A design tool enabling power trains for electric aircraft to be modeled and optimized early in design has been released by startup LaunchPoint Electric Propulsion Systems.
Advanced Air Mobility

The Aviation Safety Alliance for Africa (ASAA) is holding its first runway safety webinar next week. The webinar aims to assist efforts at establishing more and more effective Runway Safety Teams.
Aerospace