Based in Washington, Michael Bruno is Aviation Week Network’s Executive Editor for Business. He oversees coverage of aviation, aerospace and defense business issues, and is editor in chief of Aviation Week Executive Intelligence newsletters. Beyond reporting, Bruno helps organize related Aviation Week conferences, hosts podcasts and webinars, and speaks publicly as a subject matter expert on industry issues. Since joining Aviation Week in 2005, he has won several Jesse H. Neal and Aerospace Media awards. He has a master's degree from Syracuse University and a bachelor's from Vanderbilt University.
Two new composite fan blade manufacturing plants coming online this month for Safran, representing hundreds of millions of dollars in investments, is just the latest bullish sign of the Paris-based company’s confidence in the CFM Leap-1 engine and in the U.S. market. And at least one U.S. supplier is betting its business on it, too.
