Aerospace

AT&T and Verizon have agreed to delay deploying 5G wireless services using C-band spectrum for two weeks beyond the scheduled Jan. 5 start date, giving the FAA more time to prevent airspace system disruptions arising from the potential of interference with aircraft radio altimeters.

Korean Air has demonstrated the visual inspection of an aircraft using multiple drones simultaneously.

FDH AERO, CA acquired CALCO AEROSPACE, TX (hardware distributor).

SHIMIFREZ, Canada has received AS9100 Section 8.3 certification for quality in design, development and manufacture of aerospace components.

ROLLS-ROYCE completed sale of BERGEN ENGINES, Norway (gas/diesel engines) to Langley Holdings for enterprise value of €63m (SPNWS; Aug 6).

CARLISLE IT, FL introduced high-voltage extruded wires capable of 1,000-volt performance with excellent flammability/arc-resistance propagation.

Sustainable aviation and advanced air mobility are the focus of the fifth round of research projects selected under NASA’s University Leadership Initiative.

US DOT reached agreement with AT&T and Verizon to delay planned 5G C-band deployment around certain airports for two weeks to check safety.

South Korea’s Hanwha Systems is to lead development of a hydrogen fuel-cell system to power future advanced air mobility vehicles.

Airbus has unveiled Airbus Atlantic, a wholly owned subsidiary that starts off as the No. 2 aerostructures provider in the Western business world as measured by annual sales.

An investment fund is playing a key role in safeguarding small companies and creating larger groups in France’s aerospace industry.

SPAC led by Directional Aviation’s Kenn Ricci plans to take Embraer’s eVTOL spinoff Eve public in $512 million deal.

NASA’s sustainable flight demonstrator contest could not have come at a better time for the under-pressure Boeing.

In the first such move by a leader in the advanced air mobility market, Joby Aviation has acquired Austrian radar designer Inras to prepare for more complex, and eventually autonomous, operations of its electric urban air taxi.

China’s EHang has announced the first order for its VT-30 long-range autonomous air taxi, now in flight testing.

German drone delivery company Wingcopter has secured a new investor in Latin America as it expands its global presence.

Kawasaki Heavy Industries has demonstrated an end-to-end delivery operation using an unmanned cargo aircraft and a ground robot.

The first so-called gigafactory built by a European battery company has been commissioned, with the assembly of its first lithium-ion cell.

Japan’s Kyoto University and Sumitomo Forestry Co. are planning a 2023 mission to launch what they claim to be the first orbiting wooden satellite.

Behind the scenes of the aviation and telecommunications industries’ clash over 5G wireless transmissions, aviation standards organization RTCA is developing performance specifications for a new generation of radio altimeters that would be hardened against 5G interference.

Addman Engineering, the additive manufacturing rollup under private equity investor American Industrial Partners, has acquired Castheon, a refractory metals maker that has partnered with spacecraft-providing companies, the companies announced Jan. 3.

Large U.S. defense prime contractor L3Harris Technologies has reorganized to include just three main business divisions, with Aviation Systems and its top unit executive no longer part of the company’s structure.

Telecommunications giants AT&T and Verizon have refused a high-level U.S. government appeal to delay activating new 5G wireless networks on Jan. 5 as scheduled, offering instead to draw temporary exclusion zones around certain airports to protect against the possibility of interference with aircraft radio altimeters.

As ZeroAvia prepares to fly its modified Dornier 228 hydrogen-electric propulsion system testbed, details of the mobile refueling system that will support flight testing are emerging.

Denmark’s government has set the goal of all domestic aviation being fossil-free by 2030, potentially through a combination of sustainable aviation fuel and electric and hydrogen propulsion.