Aircraft & Propulsion

As airliners begin to fly again, the pandemic outbreak may prove to have a longer-lasting impact on industry efforts to boost sustainability, but eco

The latest internet entrepreneurs to put money into UAM hope to set their company apart with a safe, quiet low-cost vehicle.

UK MRO firm STS Aviation Services plans to convert Boeing 737s into E-7 Wedgetail airborne early warning platforms for the British Royal Air Force.

Air France has definitively ended Airbus A380 operations, bringing forward an existing plan to phase out the superjumbo following the coronavirus outbreak.

Ask the Editors: Anything that lowers trip costs is a benefit to carriers right now, with a predicted shift to lower-capacity aircraft.

When traffic starts to grow again, Europe’s system of hubs and secondary airports may evolve.

Reaffirming current protocols and developing new ones are both in the cards.

Israeli carrier El Al has warned it may not be able to continue as a going concern if it fails to secure a state-guaranteed $400 million loan from its lenders.

Ask the Editors: With availability of Fed-backed private sector funding, large aerospace companies are unlikely to rely on CARES Act.

Boeing and Embraer are not working closely together—quite the opposite, in fact, given the recent, last-minute breakup of their proposed commercial union.

Brazil’s Azul Airlines intends to use the recent agreement it reached with Embraer to defer 52 E2s as a blueprint for discussions with other suppliers, including Airbus.

China Southern Airlines is planning to raise CNY16 billion ($2.2 billion) by issuing convertible bonds, mainly for the acquisition of aircraft.

Faced with massive cost pressures during the COVID-19 crisis, Mitsubishi cuts back on regional jet investment.

Boeing has tapped long-time executive and former head of commercial engineering Mike Delaney to lead what the company sees as a pan-industry

The UK has launched the second phase of a £300 million ($366 million) challenge to develop a novel aviation system enabling safe operation of new types of aircraft including delivery drones, urban air taxis and electric regional aircraft.

Among the long-term ripple effects of COVID-19, add this: aerospace and defense (A&D) companies are going to become a lot more digital, from tip to tail.

Brazilian LCC Azul, in a cost-cutting measure spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic, plans to defer 59 Embraer E2s originally scheduled for delivery

Ask the Editors: Low-energy nuclear reactions, compact fusion reactors and advanced small modular reactors are among concepts being tested.

Surplus parts will be available, but will airlines simply use their own?

Specialist aircraft-finance consultancy IBA has forecast that 7.5% of the world’s narrowbodies and 30% of widebodies could be prematurely withdrawn from service over the next 20 months, creating a 2,500-aircraft oversupply.

Ask the Editors: As airlines gain more leverage with lessors on aircraft maintenance, use of such parts may increase.

Electric propulsion has rekindled interest in short-takeoff-and-landing aircraft for regional transportation.

General Electric has shipped the first F414-100 engine to Lockheed Martin Skunk Works to power NASA’s X-59A QueSST low-boom supersonic flight

De Havilland Aircraft of Canada expanded its “simplified package freighter” conversion program to its legacy Dash 8s, announcing Transport Canada approval and a launch customer.

Turboprop manufacturer ATR enjoyed a significant increase in orders in 2019 and believes that the regional market will be one of the first to recover from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.