Aerospace

L3Harris leaders say their focus remains carrying out their prior plans for their merger of equals.

For far too long, Boeing took its eye off the ball to chase share-price inflation. Calhoun has a golden opportunity to reboot and revitalize Boeing.

Actions for this year: choose contracting arrangements, a prime contractor and foreign partners, and allocate funds.

PIETRO ROSA TBM, Italy has long-term Boeing contract to supply various titanium forgings for 787, 777X and 737 MAX.

Virgin Galactic’s founding CEO George Whitesides is relinquishing daily management of the fledgling space tourism company to focus on future programs, including point-to-point hypersonic and orbital space transportation, the company said on July 15.

The first Space Launch System (SLS) rocket is about halfway through an eight-part Green Run test program at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, with a full-duration static firing of the booster’s four Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-25 engines expected in October, Boeing Vice President and SLS Program Manager John Shannon said on July 15.

Northrop Grumman’s Minotaur IV rocket ended a nearly three-year hiatus with a July 15 launch from Wallops Island, Virginia, to put a quartet of classified satellites into orbit for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).

AAR was re-selected by Unison Industries as exclusive distributor for its turbine ignition systems, engine-dedicated alternators, sensors, switches

Emissions-free flight is the overall goal for the future. MTU is conscious of this responsibility and is working on evolutionary engine solutions for tomorrow and revolutionary concepts for the future.

With usual candor in an international program, Russia says it and China have not cooperated easily.

Facing a $475 billion loss in commercial aviation manufacturing, the A&D industrial base could suffer aftershocks for years.

Robert F. Leduc, retired President of Pratt & Whitney, was elected to the Board of Directors of AAR, Wood Dale, IL.

Drone logistics system developer Matternet on July 14 announced the start of a second hospital delivery operation with UPS Flight Forward in North Carolina.

As part of Flight Paths Forward, Aviation Week's Managing Editor of Technology, Graham Warwick, sits down with Tim Grayson, the director of DARPA's Strategic Technology Office, who explains how the agency is pioneering the development of breakthrough technologies.

South African Airlines (SAA) is on track for a relaunch after creditors of loss-making national carrier have approved a rescue plan on which requires at least $596 million in new funding – which now falls on the South African government to turnaround.

The MEBAA Show, the Middle East’s leading business aviation platform, is set to return to Dubai, taking place on 08-10 December 2020 at DWC, Airshow Site.

British aerospace firms will be less well-resourced to cope with a no-deal Brexit if the UK government and the European Union cannot come to a consensus on a future trading relationship by the end of the year, industry has warned.

Guillaume Faury is optimistic about a market recovery, but pace and timing are among many aspects impossible to predict.