Aerospace

BOEING says, to combat COVID-19, it will use 3D printing to manufacture face shields for emergency medical personnel and donate use of Dreamlifter to

Ethiopian Airlines has delivered medical supplies donated by Jack Ma, the founder of China’s e-commerce giant Alibaba, to 39 African countries within five days. Ethiopian has transported Jack Ma’s support including testing kits, masks and protective suits.

Sensing supercooled icing; Russian electric testbed: deorbiting tether; digitalizing cabin; UPS drone delivery; Lilium eVTOL funding.

President Donald Trump signed a $2.2 trillion stimulus bill into law March 27, aimed at shielding the U.S. economy from damage done by COVID-19

In the aviation marketplace into which we will likely emerge after the coronavirus crisis, China is likely to be the big winner.

OneWeb has moved a step close to filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S., the London-based Financial Times reported March 27.

Russian airframer Irkut’s fourth MC-21-300 flight prototype has arrived at the Gromov Flight Research Institute in Zhukovsky, near Moscow, ahead of certification trials

ROLLS-ROYCE is significantly reducing all but essential activity within its UK Civil Aerospace facilities through April 3; Defence facilties are still

This webinar took place March 27, 2020 The novel coronavirus is wreaking havoc on the aviation industry. Each day brings a new round of fleet

The coronavirus crisis postpones algorithmic competition, but DARPA pushes ahead with development of AI for air combat.

Financial support at an unprecedented scale is on its way in some countries.

The U.S. Army's Future Vertical Lift program has focused on future rotorcraft, but GA-ASI pursues the MQ-1C role for Advanced UAS.

US GOVT agreed to $2t Coronavirus stimulus package (CARES Act); proposed deal is to provide financial relief to US pax airlines ($50b), cargo airlines

L3HARRIS launched Express Readout automated aircraft recorder validation service that provides necessary reports about recorder functionality.

Austrian aerospace parts and services provider FACC expects further consolidation in the supplier business in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Manufacturing at Airbus’ final assembly lines has restarted to a limited extent, while wing production has been paused.

AIRBUS is reducing production at wing plants in Bremen, Filton and Broughton because of sufficient stock levels; sites will remain open during this

EMBRAER reported $209.8m net loss on $2.1b revenues for 4Q19 vs $2.6m profit on $1.7b in 4Q18; and $322.3m net loss on $5.5b revenues for 2019 vs $178

A research program that could allow the design of future commercial aircraft to begin with the passenger cabin has been launched by German aerospace center DLR.

Austrian aerospace parts and services provider FACC has said that a “large part” of its staff is expected to apply for “short-term work” starting Apr. 6 and that it will revise plans to ramp up a new Croatian factory while suspending its dividend payment to shareholders for 2019.

A question for U.S. leaders: Is it worth taking Boeing up on its bailout bid? The answer is likely yes, but not for the obvious reasons.

EMBRAER is teaming with companies/research centers to develop technologies to supply replacement parts/filtration systems for medical equipment

ASD is calling on EU Institutions and worldwide Governments to provide specific support for the entire civil aviation sector with specific emergency

AIR INDUSTRIES GROUP had $9.1m gross profit on $54.6m sales in 2019 vs $5.4m on $44.5m in 2018.

ATI (Allegheny Technologies) extended labor deal with USW-covered workers for one year through February 2021.