Elbit Systems announced it performed flight testing of the digital eyepiece add-on system that transforms existing helmet-mounted displays and night-vision goggles into “smart helmets” effective in night flying.
BAE Systems is unveiling a new model at the Airshow which offers clues about the company's collaborative work with Dassault on an Anglo-French unmanned combat air vehicle.
The Indian Air Force, India’s Defence Research and Development Organization and Israel Aerospace Industries have recently tested the latest medium-range surface-air missile air and missile defense system, a member of the Barak 8 air defense weapon system.
It’s been a unique and remarkable decade for aerospace, says GE Aviation president and CEO David Joyce. Unprecedented investment and transformational advances in technology, materials and manufacturing have resulted in new aircraft, new engines, record backlogs and a new supply chain.
Boeing will officially open its 290,000-sq.-ft. engineering research and development lab in mid-July in Oklahoma City, providing 800 new jobs for a state with a long history in aerospace.
Local Hampshire businessman Andrew Barnett has been appointed membership chairman at the Farnborough Aerospace Consortium, which is one of Europe’s longest-established aerospace and defense trade bodies.
Of all the announcements made in the Conservative Government's Strategic Defense and Security Review of 2015, none had been more widely anticipated and extensively analyzed as the reconstitution of a British maritime patrol and anti-submarine warfare capability.
From the first biplane flights of the early 20th century, to the historic Apollo 11 moon landing, to the cutting-edge development currently taking place on unmanned aircraft systems, American aerospace companies have consistently proven their ability to push the bounds of innovation.
The State of New York released an additional US$4 million in planning funds for Norsk Titanium to build the world’s first factory to make aerospace parts with its patented Rapid Plasma Deposition process.
Setting the goals to fulfill future market needs, IAI chairman Rafi Maor foresees larger drones, sophisticated robotics, air defense and cyber at the forefront of the company’s future growth.
The UK’s defense ministry and Airbus Defence & Space will confirm that the company has been awarded deals to supply cryptographic key management solutions to three British military aircraft.
International customers represent 80% of revenue for most Ontario aerospace firms, in part because of free trade agreements with 15 countries, a highly skilled workforce, strong educational programs and a business friendly environment.
Aerostructures and component supplier GKN is mulling the future of the MRO businesses it inherited from its takeover of Fokker Technologies. Fokker Services was part of its EUR706 million (USD779 million) acquisition of Fokker Technologies from owners Arle Capital last July. The operation specializes in redelivery of aircraft for lessors, VIP conversions, and MRO on a number of aircraft types including the large fleets of aircraft built by the company when it was an aircraft manufacturer until the 1990s.
The U.S. Air Force is on the verge of declaring its F-35 Joint Strike Fighters operational after resolving a software bug that caused the jets’ systems to stall out mid-flight and have to be rebooted.
Together with Pratt & Whitney Canada, the company expects to have 100,000 engines in service by 2020 by when revenues will have grown to roughly US$22 billion
The British Government needs to be “relatively bold” in order to attract investment from business and stabilize the uncertainty cause by the country’s decision to “Brexit” according to UK aerospace trade organization ADS.
Bell’s new CEO Mitch Snyder has declared innovation as his top priority, as the company works to re-position itself in the challenging rotary-wing market.
A collapse in oil and gas prices that has choked off demand for commercial helicopters has been harsher than anticipated, says Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson, but she stands behind the company’s $9-billion acquisition of Sikorsky last year from United Technologies.
Boeing confirms it is studying a further stretch of the 777X family currently in development, and says such an extension would be relatively easy to accomplish.
China Aircraft Leasing Group (CALC) and aviation investment company Friedmann Pacific Asset Management have signed a preliminary order with Comac for 60 ARJ21-700s.
