Manufacturing & Supply Chain

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

It is time for the government, airlines, leasing companies, financiers, OEMs and suppliers to join forces.

Ask the Editors: M&A is frozen for now, a lot of consolidation is likely to occur in the lower levels of the aerospace, driven by financial distress.

Both Boeing and Airbus are looking at what they can do to survive COVID-19’s impact, but it may also affect future airliner development.

Embraer’s C-390 should be able to hold its own on the global market, despite the Boeing joint-venture setback.

Boeing’s 777X test program is set to accelerate with the addition of a second 777-9 flight test aircraft, WH002, which made its first flight from the

It is critical that aerospace companies invest in strategic priorities now to ensure their long-term competitiveness.

Some airlines in Europe, now bolstered by hefty state aid packages, are trying to assess how their businesses will fare after the crisis.

Engine-makers prepare for a harsh new reality amid precipitous declines in demand for new powerplants and shrinking aftermarket services.

Airbus will not decide on further changes to its production rates before June and any potential adaptations will be “on a smaller scale” than previous cuts, Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury said April 29.

Ask the Editors: Air Transport World Editor-in-Chief Karen Walker answers.

Many questions and variables remain, but it means market chaos for small airliners.

A review finds a conflict between emergency procedures and maintenance instructions.

The first crewed flight test in NASA’s Commercial Crew Program is targeted for a May 27 launch.

Gurit, a Swiss-based provider of prepreg composite materials for aerospace, announced April 23 that its longtime CEO Rudolf Hadorn will step down at the end of March 2021 but could eventually become chairman of the board of directors.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has said it will suspend its production for the Boeing 787 program for up to 10 days in May.

Ask the Editors: Senior Business Editor Michael Bruno answers.

High-speed rail long has been the boogeyman to global airliner growth. The novel coronavirus could make it a real competitor.

Boeing is reorganizing top managers and their duties, the company said late April 21, in what is the first headquarters overhaul under relatively new CEO and president David Calhoun.

Ask the Editors: Air Transport and Safety Editor Sean Broderick answers.

The Quad/Vent Splitter quadruples ventilator capability to help save lives.

After having let employees generate many digital tools, Airbus is streamlining their creation and use.

The coming weeks and months will be full of big announcements about business changes. Here are three factors affecting A&D supply chains.

Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) and Subaru have suspended production of 787 components in response to Boeing’s earlier decisions, now partly reversed, to stop work on the program amid the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S.

Owners realize an aircraft’s residual value by removing and selling parts and must now dismantle in an environmentally sustainable way.