Manufacturing & Supply Chain

Ask the Editors: A key factor is to create biofuel primarily from waste streams rather than purpose-grown plants.

Suppliers have more questions than answers as already announced production cuts must become reality, and even more could be revealed.

Cessna 208B Caravan converted to all-electric propulsion using the same system already powering an electric de Havilland Canada Beaver.

The move marks another milestone in a gradual recovery for the aircraft program, which has been grounded since March 2019.

Ask the Editors: Embraer’s CEO says the original E175 will remain in production for as long as there are customers.

The IFC/IFE sector is reeling along with all aviation. Analysts and executives see sunnier days eventually, but also darkening clouds.

Ask the Editors: Instead of the mature horizontal model of today’s engine market, electric propulsion has been vertically integrated.

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

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

Among major trends COVID-19 is expected to spur in A&D manufacturing is the big will gobble up others or take back more work.

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

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

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

The U.S. military continues to expand the operational envelope of its X-37B robotic spaceplanes amid the COVID-19 crisis.

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

Ask the Editors: Thales and Safran have different focuses, and Safran’s defense business is much smaller than Thales’.

Democratic control of the White House likely will not be negative for defense but would introduce some new factors and issues.

Cassio family unveil; Sabrewing rollout; WatFly’s personal eVTOL; Advancing Remote ID; Sniffing out COVID-19.

The Air Force looks to Agility Prime and eVTOLs as a potential model for engaging with commercial technology innovators.

In damage-control effort, French aerospace industry outlines plans for supply chain support.

Month-old Raytheon Technologies is slashing billions of dollars in costs and other retrenchments, including workforce cutbacks, as commercial OEM and aftermarket revenue could be halved this year in the wake of COVID-19.

Ask the Editors: Sustainable aviation fuels are technically viable today; it is their economic viability that remains in question.

Leaders of aerostructures supplier Spirit AeroSystems already are envisioning a dramatically different company as COVID-19 upends commercial air

This crisis likely will crystalize forces such as the marginalization of aerospace products in the digital economy and the rise of Asia.

Ask the Editors: The Pentagon’s hypersonic prototypes rely on a large number of small, boutique companies with highly specialized skills.