Aerospace

ALLIED AVIATION (fueling services), NY joined ALTA as an affiliate member.

Production of the composite blade set for Rolls-Royce’s UltraFan future large civil engine family demonstrator is getting underway at the company’s Bristol facility, representing the official start of parts manufacturing for the first test engine.

TOYOTA INDUSTRIES this week tested its advanced automatic towing tractor at Chubu (Nagoya) Centrair International Airport in collaboration with ALL

LOTAMS was approved by EASA to provide 787-8/9/10 type training.

BOEING delivered first 767-300F built at higher rate of three per month to FEDEX.

THALES was selected by Sichuan Airlines to supply CORE IFE for 10 A350s on order for delivery starting 4Q21.

ROLLS-ROYCE began manufacturing composite fan blades for UltraFan demonstrator; blades have a 140-inch diameter.

PRATT & WHITNEY has Korean Air order to supply PW1100G-JMs for up to 50 A321neos starting in 2021; it is also in discussions with Korean Air

AIRBUS unveiled MAVERIC blended wing body scale model technological demonstrator; it says design has potential to reduce fuel consumption by up-to 20%

JTC announced S$500m in new deals with GE Aviation, SIAEC, SAESL, AMETEK MRO, Pattonair and RLC Group (Singapore) for new facilities and an expansion

VELO3D, CA teamed with Honeywell to supply its Sapphire metal 3D printer to produce aircraft components; qualification process in Phoenix is underway.

BOEING began series of engineering flights of 737 MAX 7 with updated software; it estimates MAX ungrounding in mid-2020.

AIRBUS was authorized by Chinese Government to restart its Tianjin FAL and says it will gradually increase production.

Skylock, an anti-drone industry leader that provides solutions for governments, critical infrastructures and homeland security organizations, is featuring its Dronelock system for locating, detecting and neutralizing drones at Singapore Airshow 2020.

WTM Virtual will host its first meeting of tourism with ministers from Israel, UAE and Bahrain since historic Abraham Accords signing.

Watch the news round up on TATV with Alan Peaford and Marcelle Nethersole in support of Day 4 of the Safety in African Aviation conference.

Watch the news round up on TATV with Alan Peaford and Marcelle Nethersole in support of Day 3 of the Safety in African Aviation conference.

Watch the news round up on TATV with Alan Peaford and Marcelle Nethersole in support of Day 2 of the Safety in African Aviation conference.

Etihad Airways has launched the world’s first Transition Sukuk and the first Sustainability-Linked financing in global aviation, under a Transition Finance Framework.

The U.S. Air Force must decide how to fill an aerial refueling shortfall exacerbated by KC-46 delays and an aging KC-10 fleet.

Sessions are expected to focus on the MCAS and manual-trim operation.

As it becomes clearer that disruptive new airliner configurations will be one of the few ways of meeting the reduced emissions targets of the future, Airbus has revealed it is flight-testing a scaled blended wing body (BWB) technology demonstrator.

Details of the U.S. Navy’s new generation, electrically powered aircraft launch and recovery system, currently under test for the first time on the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) carrier, are visible in a large-scale model at the General Atomics booth at Singapore Airshow.

Iran’s initial formal investigative update on the Jan. 8 downing of a Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737-800 sheds little new information on the disaster and stops short of confirming what its government has admitted: anti-aircraft missiles fired at the aircraft, seemingly in error, brought it down.

Boeing's jet-powered MQ-25 will embark on aircraft carriers “to conduct aerial refueling as a primary mission and provide some ISR capability as a secondary mission,” according to fiscal 2021 Navy budget documents.