Manufacturing & Supply Chain

Will Boeing’s decision to focus on steadying production and deliveries, over new products, endanger its long-term market position?

The U.S. Air Force has released many details about the mostly classified program, but much about the new stealth bomber remains secret

The A220 is another important element in Airbus’ competitive play against Boeing, and scenarios for a broader role are being evaluated.

2Excel had 18 aircraft based at Doncaster but has been forced to move its fleet to Teesside and Humberside airports, after Doncaster Airport’s owners Peel Group announced it would close the airport in September.

Aviation Week editors are skeptical of CEO Dave Calhoun’s new commercial airliner timeline.

Airbus opts for an open architecture production system to allow for incremental changes, but integration is delayed at new subsidiaries.

How the TFE731 helped launch the business jet era—quietly.

This is the first FAA TSO-certified avionics component to be developed and manufactured by a company in China.

China’s Pterodactyl; Spirit’s secret production shop to open; U.S. GBSD under pressure; and Pacific military exercises pick up.

A single regional jet destined for Congo Airways sitting under unusually grey skies at Embraer’s Sao Jose dos Campos facility may not have seemed particularly significant, but it exemplified the Brazilian manufacturer’s ambitions in Africa.

The industry is looking to digitalization to offset higher prices and workforce challenges.

Does Boeing risk becoming a value trap, a promising public company suffering stormy days, yet never able to get through them?

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

Europe’s aerospace supply chain may have to deal with a competitive disadvantage vis-a-vis other regions if energy prices stay elevated.

Pete Bunce, General Aviation Manufacturers Association president and CEO, outlined the multiple challenges and threats that business aircraft manufacturers are facing at the Corporate Jet Investor conference.

Building on lessons from the PW1100G, Pratt & Whitney’s expanded Advantage test and pre-production readiness program is targeting a smoother entry into service.

With an eye on contested logistics, service officials want more capable mobility aircraft sooner than originally planned.

A320becomes hydrogen laboratory; China’s large cargo UAV; Embraer’s autonomous bizjet vision; and XPeng’s drive/fly eVTOL.

He stared down Lockheed on the F-35 negotiations, devised a politically-neutral tanker competition and ramped up Pentagon innovation.

The airframer still intends to deliver “around 700” commercial aircraft in 2022.

The country's air force is one of the major beneficiaries of Berlin’s defense spending uptick.

Anti-satellite threats force military satellites to use more fuel.

China flies new UAS; Aero Vodochody’s L-159 upgrade; MDA receives NGI software build; and Lockheed to make PRSM missiles in 2023.

Woodward is likely far from the last large aerospace and defense company to announce a post-pandemic business restructuring.

While the Air Force shifts focus toward a future KC-Z, some on Capitol Hill say the planned 2040 fielding date leaves too long of a gap.