Aerospace

Lift Aircraft has been awarded a Phase 3 contract by the U.S. Air Force’s Agility Prime program to continue experimentation and flight tests of its single-seat HEXA electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft.

Hexcel has signed a letter of intent with Archer Aviation to provide high-performance carbon fiber materials for the electric vertical takeoff and landing startup’s production air taxi.

HEXCEL was selected by Archer Aviation to supply carbon fiber and resin systems (prepreg) to fabricate composite parts.

RAISBECK ENGINEERING has FAA STC for its EPIC Caravan drag reduction system, for the Cessna Caravan 208B.

THOMAS GLOBAL SYSTEMS has launch order from SkyWest Airlines to retrofit its CRJs with TFD-4000 LCD flight displays starting in mid-2022; plug-and

INFOSYS and ROLLS-ROYCE inaugurated their joint Aerospace Engineering and Digital Innovation Centre in Bengaluru.

LIEBHERR-AEROSPACE signed MOU with HAL to collaborate in developing on-board systems for current and future aircraft programs.

Faizal Gara to Business Development Manager of ACC Aviation, UK.

The U.S. Space Force is tracking the development of on-orbit maneuvering and refueling in the commercial industry to inform how the technology could shape its plans for future national security launches.

The European Investment Bank on April 6 unveiled roughly $17.4 million in financing for Dutch company Airborne International.

Major consultancy Accenture on April 6 said it made an unspecified investment in Titan Space Technologies, which is proffering software in support of in-orbit experiments and demonstrations, starting with adaptive immune response, carbon capture and biomedical applications.

SpinLaunch, which conducted its first test flight from its Suborbital Accelerator at Spaceport America last October, has signed a Space Act agreement with NASA to demonstrate its lofting system this year.

Piasecki is planning to fly an 80-kW fuel-cell powertrain in an off-the-shelf commercial helicopter as a key demonstration step toward development of its PA-890 hydrogen-electric light helicopter.

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As the company readies its flight demonstrator, CEO Blake Scholl explains how he plans to revive supersonic air travel.

Buoyed by sales at HAI Heli-Expo, Leonardo Helicopters CEO Gian Piero Cutillo says the commercial helicopter market has turned a corner.

ARSA says the aviation industry must embrace sensible regulatory interpretation to ensure the success of futuristic flight technologies.

BOEING teamed with MICROSOFT and AWS to accelerate its digital transformation.

APPLIED COMPOSITES acquired Cleveland-based NORTH COAST (RTM composites).

Startup space companies raised $15.4 billion in total financing in 2021, double the amount raised in 2020.

In a major step forward in its digitalization, including overhauling how it designs and builds new aircraft, Boeing announced a series of deals with the highest-profile cloud-computing providers.

Universal Hydrogen plans to flight test its 1-megawatt, hydrogen fuel-cell propulsion system on a De Havilland Canada Dash 8-300 regional aircraft starting around September.

The Blue Origin and Sierra Space-led consortium developing the Orbital Reef commercial space station says it is on track to conduct the preliminary design review of the low Earth orbit outpost in 2023 following completion of the systems requirements review.

Canada’s National Research Council has begun flight tests of a Cessna 337G Skymaster modified into a hybrid-electric propulsion testbed.

South Korea’s Doosan Mobility Innovation (DMI) has secured a 27 billion won ($22 million) investment, primarily for the development of cargo drones powered by hydrogen fuel cells.