Manufacturing & Supply Chain

As ATR delivers its first ATR72 freighter to FedEx, Embraer considers an E190 conversion program.

An investment fund formed last summer to support small and medium enterprises in the French aerospace sector has received an additional €100 million ($120 million) from the Credit Agricole banking group, thus bringing it closer to its goal of raising a total of €1 billion.

If an industry premised on uniting humanity cannot gather, then what hope is there? The answer is: Plenty, just a little less for salespeople.

Ask the Editors: Progress on the production and liquefaction infrastructures for hydrogen could mean big things for aviation.

COVID-19 may force companies to change their supply chains, workforces and digital resilience.

Air shows are primarily about the enormous and intricate industry that creates ever-improving platforms and systems.

Forecasts, snapshots and commercial air transport and business aircraft to watch.

Slattery wants the engine manufacturer to become more agile, is bullish about the 737 MAX and cautious for future hydrogen propulsion.

Despite the pandemic, the industry continued to make progress in sustainability, space, aviation safety and more.

The Boeing-Airbus duopoly cannot count on widebody sales anytime soon, so their hope is to get narrowbody production back to normal.

Four and half years since the Brexit referendum and aerospace is no nearer to understanding what the UK’s future trading relationship with its nearest and largest trading partner will look like.

Chances are you have never heard of an SPAC. But you or someone you know might be working for one in 2021—and you could be an investor.

Recovering from its worst-ever crisis while also focusing on reducing the environmental impact will be a 2021 air-transport challenge.

There will be less harm in investing in guided missiles than in misguided men.

As the industry gets ready for a recovery in demand, legacy airlines and low-cost carriers alike are rethinking their product strategies.

Pricing based on costs that have risen since aircraft were sold will spell trouble throughout the supply chain.

Rolls-Royce has hired Infosys, one of India’s largest digitally-based consulting firms, to provide engineering, research and development services for its civil aerospace business, turning over a major office in Bengaluru that the engine-maker built up over the last decade.

Brazilian OEM thinks it can produce an aircraft far superior to competitors’; 50-seaters seen as market for 1,000 aircraft next 10 years.

Japan’s roles in the defense and commercial aviation supply chains make it a powerhouse.

Ask the Editors: The certification campaign may be long and expensive, but most of the development money has been spent.

As aero suppliers struggle with the worst downturn ever and the market share shifts from Boeing to Airbus, should suppliers shift, too?

The promise the French industry made this past June to make its supply chain stronger is beginning to materialize.

“These are very long-running issues; the Boeing-Airbus one has been running literally decades,” says one consultant.

Ask the Editors: “Embraer does not need to be saved,” says CEO Francisco Gomes Neto, but the company is looking for new partners.

The opportunity for other areas of the economy to grow are more numerous as the world emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic.