Boeing

Freighter conversions and new joint ventures dominate this month’s Contracts and Briefs.

A Boeing/Saab team is on track to deliver the first Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bomb and a new launcher to the Ukrainian military, a company official said on Oct. 9.

September’s 10 787 deliveries are the most in any month in 2023 and matched December 2022’s total.

Deeply intertwined supply chains mean that breaking up is not just hard to do—in some cases, it is impossible.

Two competing hypervelocity projectiles have achieved record-setting distance flights from different types of long-range artillery systems.

As airlines scramble for capacity, lessors enjoy much higher rates and predict the good times are here to stay.

The developments come less than two months ahead of the latest edition of the UN climate chance conference, COP28, which will be held in Dubai.

A market survey released by the Air Force calls for higher engine thrust than what candidates for the Collaborative Combat Aircraft have flown so far.

SunExpress, a joint venture between Lufthansa and Turkish Airlines, says it had a strong summer season despite aircraft delivery shortfalls.

Salil Gupte, president of Boeing India, discusses the country's aviation growth and the importance of ramping up MRO to support the expanding Indian fleet.

United Airlines’ latest order for 110 aircraft—50 Boeing 787-9s and 60 Airbus A321neos—fills out the carrier’s order book for the latter part of the decade.

A clean-sheet design could shake off dust gathering on the 737 and offer significant profit and fuel savings.

Freight specialist DHL is expanding its fleet with the acquisition of five Airbus A330-200 converted freighters.

For too long, OEMs assumed that compliant aerostructures suppliers were a given. That era is over, and aerospace stakeholders must plan for a new reality.

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

Sales and strategy expert Christian Scherer to run Airbus Commercial Aircraft.

The previous 53 editions broke aggregate data into U.S. and Canada, and the rest of the world; the 54th edition subdivides data into seven regions.

Irish ULCC Ryanair says it will now receive just 14 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft between September and December, instead of the 27 previously expected.

China is learning the science of airliners, but politics remains an issue, experts say.

After a pre-pandemic boom, Chinese lessors have sharply curtailed their business expansion.

China’s decades as aviation’s fastest growth country is over for now, and it will take years for aircraft deliveries to return to previous levels.

Israel Aerospace Industries has signed an agreement with Ascent Aviation Services that will see the U.S.-based MRO carry out passenger-to-freighter conversion services from its site in Arizona.

An interdisciplinary group of industry and academia have formed the Zero Impact Aviation Alliance (ZIAA) to move the needle on sustainable aviation goals.

Poland’s defense ministry has contracted a first offset agreement associated with the acquisition of its planned Boeing Apache attack helicopter fleet.

Boeing has been given 42 months to bring new 737 MAX yaw damper system software into compliance with current rules.