Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Tony Osborne
Video shows a rollout and spooling up of the Hurjet advanced jet trainer's General Electric F404 engine at Turkish Aerospace's facility in Ankara.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jen DiMascio
The White House led high-level meetings this week with Indian officials.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
The service has had to compress development of C-130J missions onto the A400M.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
GA-ASI CEO Linden Blue is clearly frustrated with the lack of mandatory U.S. government approval to export the highly controlled weapon systems.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Throughput of the UK Royal Air Force’s pilot training pipeline is improving, the head of the service has insisted.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Garrett Reim
A UK university team has been awarded £520,000 ($643,400) to develop an artificially intelligent (AI) software program to predict solar storms.
Commercial Space

By Brian Everstine
The Space Development Agency (SDA) wants to break up the Tranche 2 Transport Layer of its Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA).
Space

By Steve Trimble
Aurora Flight Sciences has revealed an eight-propulsor, monohull design for the DARPA Liberty Lifter program.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
The company plans to pick up the pace, with an eye of up to 100 flights in 2023.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
A 95-page NASA 2023 Spinoff publication was released Jan. 31.
Space

By Ben Goldstein
Azul Conecta is a regional subsidiary of Brazilian LCC Azul.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
China’s Aerofugia, a subsidiary of carmaker Geely, has flown a prototype five-seat electric vertical takeoff and landing air taxi, the AE200 X01.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
Switzerland has completed a series of avionics upgrades for its McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornets.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
The investment will support maintenance of the General Electric F414 engines that equip Sweden’s new Gripen E fighters and older F404 engines on its Gripen C/D.
Supply Chain

By Guy Norris
Bell Textron is developing military modification kits for its commercial helicopters, targeting nations with urgent security needs but limited defense budgets.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
Former NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley were awarded for their 2020 mission under a pioneering NASA flight services contract with SpaceX.
Space

By Guy Norris
Boeing marked the completion of the 56-year long 747 program with the formal handover of the final 747-8F to Atlas Air on Jan. 31 at an event in Everett, Wash.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force wants an innovative refueling system to better operate in contested environments with a goal of operations beginning in 2040.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
A program to develop, field and sustain 300 ballistic missiles with maneuverable reentry vehicles over a 20-year period would cost $13.4 million, CBO says.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
France and Italy are jointly purchasing nearly 700 Aster surface-to-air missiles.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble
The ALQ-254(V)1 Viper Shield completed an internal critical design review, the company announced on Jan. 30.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Mark Carreau
Retired NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken are to receive the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.
Space

By Tony Osborne
NATO has added three more European flight training schools to its Flight Training Europe project.
Light Attack and Advanced Training

By Graham Warwick
A center for hydrogen-fueled aviation is to be established at Stuttgart Airport in Germany.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Chen Chuanren
China has flown a verification scale model of the BWB-330 blended wing body concept, a future civil airliner design that would carry 300-330 passengers.
Emerging Technologies