Christopher Calio will take over aerospace engine maker Pratt & Whitney from Bob Leduc after the latter retires in early 2020, parent UTC announced June 25.
Trade tensions with China remain a high-profile item for the business jet market, but there is little evidence of it affecting demand, J.P. Morgan analyst Seth Seifman said June 25.
Bombardier’s reign as a marquee regional jet builder will end within a year now that the Canadian manufacturer has struck a deal to sell its Canadair Regional Jet program to Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries for $550 million and assumption of some debt.
GKN Aerospace’s Indian Joint Venture, Fokker Elmo Sasmos Interconnection Systems in Bangalore, has received a multimillion dollar contract to build electrical wiring interconnection systems for the Pilatus PC-24.
Gardner Aerospace, a European supplier of aerospace detailed parts and subassemblies, has completed a new 45,000-sq.-m manufacturing facility in Chengdu, China.
Swiss-based H55, a spin-off of the solar-powered Solar Impulse, has successfully completed first flight of a two-seat electric aircraft designed for pilot training.
The request comes nearly two weeks after an Agusta A109E helicopter crashed on the roof of the AXA Equitable Building, killing the pilot and causing a dangerous fire that required the building to be evacuated.
In a June 24 letter to the Security Subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, DJI protested testimony delivered by some of the witnesses who appeared at a hearing days earlier.
This experimental vertiport is to test the components of an urban air mobility service that could be launched for the 2024 Summer Olympic Games, to be hosted in Paris.
