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By Angus Batey
Pratt & Whitney has made a raft of announcements during the Air Show, involving sales of geared turbofan engines for Airbus A320neo series aircraft.

By Paul Jackson
While the Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules airlifter is writing history, its civil counterpart, the LM-100J, is busy rewriting it.

By Guy Norris
As aerospace accelerates toward a more electric future, Rolls-Royce has secured a head start on its strategic goals in this sector with the surprise

By Angus Batey
Raytheon’s approach to the C-UAS mission set is broad, with a range of different radar and other detectors available in a variety of different configurations.

By Angus Batey
The GE veteran has been running Avio Aero since the American-headquartered conglomerate acquired the aerospace portions the Italian propulsion-system specialist in 2013, and assumed the role of CEO the following year.

By Tony Osborne
The two companies will develop the P600 AEW platform by mounting the IAI Elta’s ELM-2096 active electronically scanned array surveillance radar in a ski-box-like pod mounted atop the fuselage of Embraer’s new Praetor 600 business jet.
Defense

By Angus Batey
An extension to a memorandum of understanding between the government of Japan and France's aviation regulator, will help pave the way for greater collaboration between Japanese and French business. But, according to Hiroyuki Hatada, director of the aerospace and defense industry division of the Japanese government's ministry of economy, trade and industry, it is also part of an ambitious and wide-ranging strategy by the Japanese government to help its aerospace sector grow.

By Guy Norris, Jens Flottau
Embraer's E195 E-2 'Profit Hunter' arrived at this year's Paris Air Show in new livery, but how much longer will the aircraft retain its name? Also, Mitsubishi is showing its rebranded MRJ, the SpaceJet at the show. Watch as our editors discuss the commercial air transport market at Le Bourget.

By Thierry Dubois
Thales is demonstrating its new FlytX avionics suite at the 2019 Paris Air Show. Watch as Aviation Week takes a look at how Thales is pitching the new system as an option for reduced training and optimizing workload in the flight deck.

By Alan Dron
United Airlines is to top up its fleet of Embraer E175s with a further firm order for 20 of the type, plus 19 options.

By Guy Norris
Despite continuing U.S.-China trade tensions and other underlying macro threats to the global economy, Boeing is taking the occasion of the 2019 Paris Air Show to issue its most positive commercial market outlook yet – a forecast that calls for the delivery of 44,040 new aircraft valued at more than $6.8 trillion over the next 20 years.

By Guy Norris
Boeing is leaning towards offering the larger of the two proposed new midmarket airplane variants first for delivery in 2025 as it nears closing the business case and obtaining board permission for formal authority to offer later this year.
Air Transport

By Paul Jackson
Since leaving the German motor glider company that continues to bear his name, Dr. Reiner Stemme has devoted his energies to utility air systems for surveillance and monitoring, generating several designs based on the sailplane formula for two related firms.

By Michael Bruno
Collins Aerospace executives are confident they can increase the capacity of their commercial engine nacelle operations here to meet future demands without growing their footprint or workforce, now that they have achieved delivery of the 1,000th nacelle for the A320neo program out of Foley, Alabama.

By Sean Broderick
Boeing’s return-to-service plan for the 737 MAX will focus on treating each aircraft as if it’s just been delivered, with the manufacturer reiterating that the model’s safe return is its top priority.

By Tony Osborne
With the grand reveal of a mockup of the Next Generation Fighter in the presence of President Emmanuel Macron on the first day of the Paris Air Show, France, Germany and Spain have now agreed on a plan for a series of demonstrator programs for the wider FCAS.

Indiana has a long relationship with aviation-related companies, from Rolls-Royce Indianapolis and GE Aviation to now, Saab, which will build the fuselage for the new Boeing/Saab T-X jet trainer for the U.S. Air Force at the Purdue University-affiliated Discovery Park District Aerospace complex in West Lafayette.

Norsk has announced it has completed design of a new, larger RPD printer. The G-IVL will be able to print larger and more complex metal parts, and to do so more quickly than current printers.

By Paul Jackson
Airbus’ decision, announced in February, to terminate the A380 after the 274th production example leaves a large hole in the Paris Air Show static display. But, while down, the superjumbo is not quite yet out.

By Robert W. Moorman
Oklahoma Governor J. Kevin Stitt, who assumed his post in January, is assuring businesses that the state is business-friendly and pushing to be among the top ten states attracting aerospace companies.

By Angus Batey
The Luftwaffe is committed to operating the Tornado until at least 2030 – with any further delay in selecting a replacement inevitably extending the type’s in-service life.

By Tony Osborne
Turkey’s aerospace and defense industry will be making noise both in the air and on the ground at this year’s Paris Air Show.

As dumb bombs are disappearing from most markets, precision has become the yardstick for modern weapons.

By Angus Batey
Attacks progress faster than most humans can think so it is easy to understand why technologies based on machine learning and artificial intelligence have taken hold in the cybersecurity marketplace.

By Angus Batey
CAE has set itself to turn around and though there was never any expectation that the process would be swift, Gene Colabatistto, argues that the process is proceeding apace.