Manufacturing & Supply Chain

Rolls-Royce has delivered the 1,000th BR725 engine to its customer Gulfstream Aerospace.

Companies across aerospace and defense are struggling with the higher cost of doing business.

Airbus management is looking to increase A321neo production and weighing up the potential for a stretched A220-500.

Despite many concerns about a continued air travel recovery, lessors and aircraft financiers back making major deals.

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

De Havilland Aircraft has unveiled plans for a massive aircraft production and aftermarket support facility near Calgary.

Ethiopian Airlines and Geven-SkyTecno have inaugurated a state-of-the-art facility for the manufacturing of Insulation Blankets for Boeing 737 MAX aircraft.

Growing mergers and acquisitions bring new owners to old assets, and often a very different ownership and operating style.

As the traditional summer travel season in the Northern Hemisphere came to a close in early September, analysts who cover aerospace and defense were paying more attention to rising energy costs, especially in Europe.

ES-30 will fly short routes on batteries, with hybrid system for reserve requirements and extended range.

German state fund WSF has sold its last stakes in Lufthansa. Now the real work to reposition the airline can begin.

Detroit show debut for eVTOL; Compact rotary hybrid engine; Fuselage-integrated hydrogen tank; and Air Force targets autonomy innovation.

Labor market, general inflation and rising production rates are making the recovery a lot harder than most envisioned.

Russia and China had envisaged first flight for the widebody in 2023 and deliveries to start between 2025 and 2027.

The industry is leaning on technology to handle pandemic recovery, but is that just further hollowing out the workforce?

Optomec and Acme Manufacturing have developed a new automated work cell to repair titanium compressor blades more efficiently than through traditional processes.

All F-35 deliveries remain halted until the Pentagon approves a waiver or an alternative source enters the supply chain in late October.

Industry experts fear the long-expected consolidation of the supplier base is about to begin in earnest.

The substantial cash deal, agreed in August 2021, was confirmed as completed on Sept. 13.

The challenges involved in electrifying aviation powertrains remain considerable, but an important developmental corner may have been turned, according to Rolls-Royce.

Virgin Galactic is reviewing initial responses to RFPs for structural and systems components for the company’s planned new Delta-class spaceplanes as it looks ahead to serial production.

Northrop Grumman quietly developed a nickel-alloy combustor that could unlock a decades-long hurdle to rapid propulsion.

Two demonstrators and a startup fuel growing activity in advanced air mobility in China.

As freighter conversions accelerate, main deck doors, rollers and floors are being designed with features for greater efficiencies.

The move signals the growing importance of electric power in new aircraft designs.