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By Thierry Dubois
Apache Aviation, a flying school based in Dijon, France, is enjoying brisk demand for its new advanced upset prevention and recovery training (UPRT) module, after EASA mandated such pilot instruction in December 2019.
Air Transport

By Tony Osborne
U.S. offshore helicopter operators Bristow and Era Group are to merge in the first major consolidation since the industry went into a crisis due to falling energy prices.
Business Aviation

By Steve Trimble
A U.S. Air Force low-cost unmanned aircraft system demonstrator returned to flight on Jan. 23 after a three-month hiatus caused by a landing mishap.
Defense

By Maxim Pyadushkin
Russia’s United Engine Corporation (UEC) has delivered its first two PD-14 turbofan engines to the Irkutsk aviation plant.
Air Transport

By Bill Carey
Swiss Post announced Jan. 23 that it will resume transporting laboratory samples by drone, ending an eight-month grounding that the postal carrier ordered after one of its Matternet M2 quadcopters crashed in Zurich.
Business Aviation

By Michael Bruno
Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), one of two large warship manufacturing companies for U.S. naval services, is continuing to make headway in its efforts to diversify its business portfolio with a major new U.S. Air Force contract to support intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR).
Defense

By Graham Warwick
Boom Supersonic has partnered with Flight Research Inc. (FRI) to test its XB-1 demonstrator in a supersonic corridor stretching across the Mojave Desert.
Business Aviation

AVIATION WEEK NETWORK forecasts the world’s fleet of western-designed fighter aircraft will generate $321.6 billion in maintenance, repair and
Defense

Brief news items of interest to aerospace and defense professionals.

Congressional auditors are criticizing the Pentagon’s reliance on accounting adjustments in preparing its financial statements, which they call “a

By Michael Bruno
Total deal value in 2019 grew 62% to almost $94 billion compared with 2018, PwC says.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
General Atomics wants to turn the MQ-1C into a “mothership” for the Army’s future Air Launched Effects (ALE).
Defense

By Michael Bruno
Deliveries of single-aisle airliners plummeted nearly 24% in 2019, largely due to the grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX, but should bounce back more than 34% in 2020, Teal Group analyst Richard Aboulafia said Jan. 23.
Air Transport

By Sean Broderick
Adding simulator training to Boeing’s latest projected 737 MAX certification time frame could push Southwest Airlines’ next MAX revenue flights into the 2020 fourth quarter, estimates laid out by the airline’s executives show.
Air Transport

By Graham Warwick
Israeli startup Eviation’s prototype Alice electric regional aircraft caught fire during ground testing at Prescott Regional Airport, Arizona, on Jan. 22.
Air Transport

By Tony Osborne
A new European helicopter show is being established through a partnership of the European Helicopter Association and the European Union Aviation Safety Agency.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
The UK Royal Air Force has sent one of its Boeing E-3D Sentry airborne early warning aircraft for storage in the U.S. as it shrinks its operational fleet.
Defense

By Thierry Dubois
The European Commission has “prebooked” four Ariane 6s for Galileo positioning satellite launches, Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton announced Jan. 22.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft has carried out its closest look yet at “Nightingale”—the nickname for the primary site on the asteroid Bennu where the mission is to gather a sample of surface material for a return to Earth in late 2023.
Defense

By Adrian Schofield
A Lockheed Martin C-130 air tanker has crashed in Australia during a firefighting mission, killing all three crewmembers on board.
Defense

By Jens Flottau
As the one-year mark of the Boeing 737 MAX grounding nears, airlines and lessors have to decide whether they want to make use of an upcoming opportunity to cancel orders for the aircraft.
Air Transport

By Tony Osborne
Britain’s Military Flying Training System is to take delivery of four more Airbus H145 Jupiter helicopters to support an upgrade in pilot training requirements.
Defense

By Bill Carey
Drone enterprise software developer PrecisionHawk on Jan. 23 announced a change of leadership.
Business Aviation

By Steve Trimble
A new automation mode to improve strafing accuracy by F-16s also highlights a new approach to fielding new capabilities.
Defense

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Defense