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By Graham Warwick
Joby Aviation has formally added a second preproduction prototype to the test program for its S4 tiltprop electric vertical takeoff and landing air taxi.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
The Netherlands is sending its new MQ-9 Reaper medium-altitude, long-endurance platforms to the Caribbean as part of a shakedown and evaluation of the new aircraft.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Michael Bruno
Bradley Feldmann has left Cubic’s corner office as the new private owners of the storied 70-year-old defense contractor appoint new leadership.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Molly McMillin
Dassault Aviation delivered 25 Rafale fighters to export customers in 2021, compared to 13 in 2020.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
Eaton, a mid-tier aerospace and defense supplier, has acquired Royal Power Solutions, a U.S.-based manufacturer of high-precision electrical connectivity components used in electric vehicle, energy management, industrial and mobility markets.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Tony Osborne
Norway’s F-35s have now taken on the mantle of NATO’s Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) duties from the F-16, operating from newly established facilities within the Arctic Circle.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
Scaled Composites has unveiled a concept for an optionally piloted, high-altitude aircraft capable of carrying modular payloads up to 10,000 lb.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
NATO fighters were scrambled the equivalent of more than once a day during 2021, mostly in response to Russian military flights.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Thierry Dubois
The lobbying association for the French aerospace industry, GIFAS, says its members may need to hire up to 15,000 after a period of job cuts.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Michael Bruno
Michigan and Ontario officials have unveiled a cross-border research study of commercial drones to explore whether small unmanned aircraft can be flown beyond line of sight and used for just-in-time delivery, medical transport or other small-scale deployments.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Brian Everstine
Blue Origin is joining the U.S. military’s effort to possibly use rockets to transport people and cargo.
Space

By Bill Carey, Sean Broderick
The U.S. aviation and telecommunications industries have deescalated—at least temporarily—their clash over an issue that threatens to further disrupt airline operations during the COVID-19 pandemic: the potential of new 5G wireless networks interfering with aircraft electronics.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Steve Trimble
A North Korean news agency claims the hypersonic glider maneuvered during flight to strike a target about 700 km (430 mi.) away.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. needs to move quickly to increase collaboration with defense industries abroad to bring on the best technologies quickly, and a key way to do that would be to expand the National Technological and Industrial Base while also loosening arms sales restrictions, the Pentagon’s former top weapons buyer said.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Irene Klotz
Flight controllers at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore deployed the secondary mirror on the James Webb Space Telescope on Jan. 5, as the list of critical reconfigurations to prepare the observatory for its unprecedented science mission neared completion.
Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s upcoming Artemis I mission will feature some familiar names and activities to those alive and well in the remote workplace realm.
Space

By Steve Trimble
A Northrop Grumman announcement about a static test offers the first confirmation of the company’s role as the solid rocket motor supplier for the Lockheed Martin Precision Strike Missile.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Graham Warwick
After playing out through most of 2020 and 2021 for the electric vertical takeoff and landing industry, the process of assembling memorandums of understanding, letters of intent and other expressions of interest to bolster fundraising drives is underway in other parts of the evolving advanced air mobility market.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Michael Bruno
AST SpaceMobile, a newly public company aiming to establish a space-based cellular broadband network for smartphones, has offered a peak inside its 85,000-ft.2 manufacturing headquarters in Midland, Texas.
Emerging Technologies

By Brian Everstine
U.S. defenses shot down four armed small drones in two days at Al Asad Air Base in Iraq, with the attempted attacks occurring on the two-year anniversary of an American drone strike in the country that killed a key Iranian military leader.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
Spain’s defense and interior ministries have jointly ordered 36 Airbus H135 twin-engine light helicopters as part of a stimulus package for Spanish industry.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Graham Warwick
New Zealand startup Kea Aerospace has conducted a 14 hr. 3 min. test flight of a subscale prototype as it continues development of a large, solar-powered unmanned aircraft capable of remaining aloft in the stratosphere for months.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Irene Klotz
Flight controllers overseeing the newly launched James Webb Space Telescope breezed through the deployment and positioning of the observatory’s five-layer, tennis court-sized sunshield, completing what was considered the most technically complicated part of the mission ahead of schedule.
Space

By Bill Carey
AT&T and Verizon have agreed to delay deploying 5G wireless services using C-band spectrum for two weeks beyond the scheduled Jan. 5 start date, giving the FAA more time to prevent airspace system disruptions arising from the potential of interference with aircraft radio altimeters.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
Korean Air has demonstrated the visual inspection of an aircraft using multiple drones simultaneously.
Maintenance & Training