Manufacturing & Supply Chain

Mubadala and Safran are joining forces to accelerate aerospace innovation and development within the UAE.
MRO

By Chen Chuanren
The ACC roadmap calls for airlines to trigger demand by including circular material requirements in requests for proposals and material purchase orders.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Robert Wall, Jens Flottau
Airframers drove a race to the bottom for their aerostructures suppliers, sending them to seek an exit.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

John Schmidt
The rise of new companies that are more digitally intensive, agile and cost-efficient presents the industry with both threats and opportunities.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Sean Broderick
The company touts its two-seat demonstrator’s work to validate concepts that are key to planned larger variant.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
Troubled Tier 1 aerostructures supplier Spirit AeroSystems is selling its Fiber Materials (FMI) business to Tex-Tech Industries for $165 million in cash.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

Sergio Cecutta
The biennial Zhuhai airshow, has for years showcased the progress of the Chinese aerospace industry, with a marked emphasis on military aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility Departments

By Michael Bruno, Joe Anselmo
Elliott says “the time has come to embrace simplification.”
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Ben Goldstein
EHang continues to lead the global electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft market in key metrics, posting Q3 industry-leading delivery figures.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Chen Chuanren
Embraer and PTDI are exploring an industrial partnership that could pave the way for the introduction of E-Jets in the Indonesian market.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Thierry Dubois
Airbus, trade unions and consultancies explore how to ensure new hires become productive more quickly.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Steve Trimble, Brian Everstine
The Defense Department is going shopping in a bid to gain information on everything from loitering attack munitions to Collaborative Combat Aircraft.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Sean Broderick
Triumph Group’s aftermarket business is reaping the benefits of new-equipment delivery struggles and an imminent rise in demand for work on landing gear parts.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Kurt Hofmann
FACC has reported healthy nine-month results but warns that an above-average increase in Central European labor costs is weighing on the supplier.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Jens Flottau
Lufthansa is considering an engine manufacturer swap for some future Boeing 787 deliveries and follow-ups as it grapples with Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 issues.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Matthew Fulco
The U.S. and its allies have yet to reduce reliance on Beijing for materials that are essential to the defense industrial base.
Supply Chain

By Joe Anselmo, Michael Bruno
How will a second Trump administration affect the defense industry and global alliances? The McCain Institute’s executive director joins our editors to discuss.
Check 6

By Sean Broderick
Boeing expects to need several weeks to restart production on affected programs with deliveries likely to ramp up in a similarly slow fashion.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Joe Anselmo
Having shaken up Southwest Airlines, activist investor Elliott Investment Management is setting its sights on a new target: Honeywell International.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Chen Chuanren
Comac has announced the rebranding of the ARJ21 as the C909 at the Zhuhai Airshow, where it also added 60 firm orders to the regional jet’s backlog.
Small Narrowbody Jets

By Chen Chuanren
Air China will be the launch customer for the Comac C929 widebody aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Garrett Reim
Salient Motion is working on a “library of certifiable building blocks” for actuators.
Emerging Technologies

Mike Stengel
New aircraft deliveries will not enable fleet age to decline meaningfully, so OEMs, airlines and the aftermarket must prepare accordingly.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jens Flottau
Embraer’s decision to reduce its guidance for commercial aircraft output is a setback for its efforts to move annual deliveries well past 100 aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Sean Broderick
Hot-section turbine blade availability continues to pace CFM Leap new-engine production rates, but supplier Howmet insists its output is keeping up with demand.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain