Airbus says its collaboration accord with Siemens to develop hybrid-electric propulsion systems for the experimental E-Fan X demo and other vehicles is concluding a year ahead of schedule.
Airbus says it has received a “surprisingly” large response to its contest challenging computing experts, academics and professionals to solve five key flight physics questions using quantum computing to improve aircraft design.
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RAYTHEON has $355.5m U.S. Air Force contract to refurbish AGM-88B High Speed Anti-Radiation Missiles and convert AGM-88Bs into Captive Air Training Missiles for Qatar, Taiwan, Bahrain, possibly others.
The U.S. Navy has deactivated the Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 101 and consolidated the unit’s Lockheed Martin F-35Cs at Naval Air Station Lemoore in California.
In a May 23 memo to employees, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said aerospace executive Mark Sirangelo left after Congress nixed plans for an agency reorganization that would have created a Moon-to-Mars Mission Directorate.
Senior RAF officers revealed that the A400M fleet is struggling with issues relating to the Europrop International TP400 engine, its associated gearbox, heat detection systems and an electronic data system.
The U.S. State Department on May 24 approved an arms export package to the UAE that includes up to 20 RQ-21 unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), 331 avelin anti-tank missiles and 20,004 Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS) II rockets.
The U.S. Navy has deactivated the Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 101 and consolidated the unit’s Lockheed Martin F-35Cs at Naval Air Station Lemoore in California.
Saab is preparing to deliver the first of three new GlobalEye airborne earning warning aircraft to the United Arab Emirates next April, company CEO Hakan Bushke has disclosed.
After Sikorsky received a $1.3 billion contract for 12 CH-53K King Stallions, the company is “bullish” about the future and recently invested $4 million in one machine to support the production ramp, the company’s president said.
Nearly a year after a propellant leak suspended Boeing CST-100 Starliner launch abort motor tests, the company successfully put the repaired system through a series of static firings.
The Planetary Society’s experimental LightSail 2 (LS 2) small satellite is ready for a high-altitude orbital test of a sunlight-propulsion technology for CubeSats.
