Manufacturing & Supply Chain

In recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic, many new factors emerge that are making civil aircraft production a major challenge.

Three areas of concern regarding the possible impact on U.S. defense of Boeing’s difficulties.

Embraer is expected to announce it is delaying the go-ahead of its planned next generation turboprop 70-90 seat airliner project.

An eVTOL behaves and is controlled differently as it changes between thrustborne and wingborne flight and back.

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

Over the next five years Collins plans to spend $200 million on building up its engineering and manufacturing capabilities in India.

Lessons learned for Boeing’s quality management system are playing a key role in helping the OEM get the 787 program back on track.

The last Boeing 747 left the company's wide-body factory in advance of its delivery to Atlas Air in early 2023.

Watched mostly in silence by Boeing workers, the final 747 emerged into the cold night late Dec. 6.

Slow rate of 787 delivery recovery reflects nonconformance and noncompliance problems such as gaps, shimming and other production issues.

After a series of alleged faux-departs, France’s Dassault Aviation has declared the three-nation FCAS program can move forward.

The partners will share best practices for design concepts and evaluate which of 53 Latin American airport sites may be most ripe for vertiport deployment.

Near-term opportunities include using off-gases from ethanol plants to produce SAF and mineralizing captured CO2 to produce aggregates for use in infrastructure

Airbus will cease procuring titanium from Russian suppliers in what is now a matter of months, according to Michael Schoellhorn, Airbus Defence and Space CEO.

Fifteen pilots have received their Comac C919 type certification following a two-month evaluation.

The nation can employ contracting tools, competition, creative policies and allied technologies to meet increased demands.

China’s decision to certify some Western aircraft helps address a few markets. But it is also very political.

Aspiring operators of electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicles are about to run into the cold, hard reality of economics.

Fuel-cell single-aisle; Scaled flight testing; Modular hydrogen propulsion; and Impact-safe lithium battery.

Hydrogen-powered vehicles progressing on the rails, roads and at sea can inspire and inform aviation applications.

Boeing’s “systemic capture and hiring” of engineers now threatens the viability of parts of Brazil’s defense industrial base, says the Association of Aerospace Industries of Brazil (AIAB).

GKN Aerospace plans to relocate its North American additive manufacturing center of excellence to a larger, 100,000 ft.² facility in Fort Worth, Texas.

As Airbus suppliers in France strive to keep pace with the A320 ramp-up they’ve committed to and prepare for further production rate increases, hiring tops their list of concerns.

Turkey’s new UCAV; U.S.-Japan missile defense test; Defense exec foresees supply chain price hikes; Space Force-Blue Origin agreement.

Neither the government nor OEMs are appreciating the scope of the pressure facing the aerospace and defense supply chain, says the president and CEO of Elbit Systems of America.