Raytheon is finally showing growth in its business since the start of budget reductions in the U.S. in 2011, says Taylor Lawrence, president of Raytheon Missile Systems.
When the former Labour Party leader Ed Miliband coined the neologism "squeezed middle," he was thinking about middle-income families. But the term might yet come to refer to certain parts of the aerospace industry.
Liebherr-Aerospace Toulouse SAS will design, supply and service the air management system, including the bleed air system, cabin pressure control and anti-ice system, for the Antonov An-132D light transport aircraft.
Tom Gentile, the incoming CEO of aerostructures and engine parts giant Spirit AeroSystems, is so unassuming that a stranger can literally bump into him alone in the halls of the company’s Wichita headquarters and receive an unnecessary apology.
Bell Helicopter’s new CEO, Mitch Snyder, has declared innovation as his top priority, as the company works to reposition itself in the challenging rotary-wing market.
One telling data point from Britain's combat mission to Afghanistan has stuck with Andrew Naismith, a former commander of RAF Chinook forces in the country.
The aerospace industry is poised for tremendous growth and, with parts on 70,000 aircraft and new ones being added every day, United Technologies Aerospace Systems is going to be right at the heart of it.
The venerable Hawk continues to evolve, with the latest T2 aircraft coming off the final assembly line in Warton bound for Saudi Arabia and Oman representing the platform's most advanced configuration.
The Farnborough Airshow’s favorite watering hole, The Swan public house, reopened its doors in December after major refurbishment by owners TAG Farnborough Airport, who bought it in 2013.
Regional airliner manufacturer ATR is projecting a need for as many as 2,800 regional turboprops as the aircraft are used to open more routes across the globe.
As Nick Jankunas, production manager and principal industrial engineer on the Leonardo-Selex ES Britecloud expendable active decoy ushers ShowNews through the double bank vault-style doors of his team's small, sealed aluminum manufacturing and test center, deep in the bowels of the company's Luton facility, he explains the name staff have given it.
Boeing started the Farnborough Airshow by securing nearly £5 billion worth of contracts from the British government for P-8 Poseidon maritime patrollers, and Apache attack helicopters.
The Aviation Week and Bank of America Merrill Lynch survey on middle-market aircraft strongly supports Boeing’s own assessments, says the company’s commercial president, Ray Conner.
With the British Government otherwise preoccupied since June 23, it remains to be seen whether the previously expected announcement of a contract to buy AH-64E Apaches will be made during the Airshow or not.
Elbit Systems announced it performed flight testing of the digital eyepiece add-on system that transforms existing helmet-mounted displays and night-vision goggles into “smart helmets” effective in night flying.
Aerostructures and component supplier GKN is mulling the future of the MRO businesses it inherited from its takeover of Fokker Technologies. Fokker Services was part of its EUR706 million (USD779 million) acquisition of Fokker Technologies from owners Arle Capital last July. The operation specializes in redelivery of aircraft for lessors, VIP conversions, and MRO on a number of aircraft types including the large fleets of aircraft built by the company when it was an aircraft manufacturer until the 1990s.
BAE Systems is unveiling a new model at the Airshow which offers clues about the company's collaborative work with Dassault on an Anglo-French unmanned combat air vehicle.
Together with Pratt & Whitney Canada, the company expects to have 100,000 engines in service by 2020 by when revenues will have grown to roughly US$22 billion
The Indian Air Force, India’s Defence Research and Development Organization and Israel Aerospace Industries have recently tested the latest medium-range surface-air missile air and missile defense system, a member of the Barak 8 air defense weapon system.
