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Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris, Sean Broderick
Lessons learned for Boeing’s quality management system are playing a key role in helping the OEM get the 787 program back on track.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Ben Goldstein
Mesa Airlines has been at the forefront of the push to adopt electric aircraft and electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Aviation Week Network Staff
Russia’s Irkut Corporation has completed the static trials of its MC-21 narrowbody commercial airliner.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
Watched mostly in silence by Boeing workers, the final 747 emerged into the cold night late Dec. 6.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
Slow rate of 787 delivery recovery reflects nonconformance and noncompliance problems such as gaps, shimming and other production issues.
Air Transport

By Graham Warwick
Lilium has released its third-quarter results.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Sean Broderick, Guy Norris
An upcoming feature in Aviation Week & Space Technology takes the most detailed look yet at the myriad problems Boeing uncovered on the 787 program in 2020.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jens Flottau
With supplier and internal issues continuing longer than expected, Airbus no longer believes 700 commercial aircraft deliveries can be achieved in 2022.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Embraer has focused its studies of sustainable aircraft on hybrid-electric and hydrogen fuel cell 19- and 30-seat regional airliners.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
JetBlue has signed an MOU to purchase at least 92 million gal. of blended SAF over five years from Fildelis New Energy.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Adrian Schofield
Air India is ramping up its ambitious fleet expansion plans for 2023 by reaching deals to lease another 12 aircraft.
Airlines & Lessors

By Matthew Orloff
KinectAir has seen initial success in the Pacific Northwest with a consistent, repeat customer base of local businesses so has added corporate accounts.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
The formula for a net-zero aviation fuel that would pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere when burned has been developed by researchers.
Emerging Technologies

By Jens Flottau, Thierry Dubois
Airbus Summit attendees were urged to focus on the emerging problems of hydrogen leakage and a lack of standards, applicable also to sustainable aviation fuels.
Emerging Technologies

By Thierry Dubois
As a further step in studying the use of superconductors in an electric-propulsion architecture, Airbus has signed a partnership agreement with CERN.
Emerging Technologies

By Helen Massy-Beresford
The agreement focuses in particular on Ryanair’s largest bases such as Dublin and London Stansted.
Airlines & Lessors

By Michael Bruno
Some bankers and advisors in mergers and acquisitions think the engine manufacturing subsector will rev up as the next deal-making hotspot.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Sean Broderick
A potential flight crew alerting deadline extension affecting the Boeing 737-7 and 737-10 has not swayed pilots who want to see U.S. Congress hold the line.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Thierry Dubois
Airbus will cease procuring titanium from Russian suppliers in what is now a matter of months, according to Michael Schoellhorn, Airbus Defence and Space CEO.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Graham Warwick
United Airlines is looking ahead to electrification of its ground operations.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Thierry Dubois
Airbus plans to flight-test a hydrogen fuel cell engine on its modified A380 testbed, as it already intended to do with a hydrogen-fueled turbofan.
Emerging Technologies

By Molly McMillin
NetJets has become the fleet launch customer for Bombardier’s Global 8000 ultra-long-range business jet.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jens Flottau
Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury warned the aerospace industry is not moving fast enough.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Thierry Dubois
Airbus has signed a partnership agreement with car manufacturer Renault to improve the technology for batteries.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Karen Walker, Jens Flottau, Thierry Dubois
Listen in as Aviation Week editors report from the Airbus Summit in Toulouse.
Air Transport