Aerospace

McKinsey & Co.’s Robin Riedel says approximately $12 billion in funding has flowed into advanced air mobility over the past decades, “a meaningful number.”

The family of Energia-branded concepts—with all-electric, hybrid-electric or hydrogen-fueled propulsion for low emissions and noise—are aimed to enter into service between 2030 and 2040.

During the COVID-19 crisis, virtual control centers would have helped in adjusting resources to market needs.

Wright believes that by 2026 both hydrogen and aluminum fuel cells can meet its requirement for around 10 megawatt hours of energy storage on the BAe 146 to enable 1-hr. flights on routes of 400 nm or shorter.

Evolito is a new UK company bringing a new power-dense electric-motor architecture to aerospace.

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has launched an initiative to accelerate the commercialization of decarbonizing technologies by leveraging collective demand from companies prepared to commit to purchases by 2030.

The Canadian Advanced Air Mobility Consortium (CAAM) has released a report on the potential of Toronto as an early market as it works toward releasing a national road map for Canada.

ANA Holdings has an agreement that sets the stage for the purchase of 20 Virgin One LauncherOne rocket flights that would take off from Japan.

Austria’s CycloTech is in discussions on the first application of its cyclorotor electric propulsion system after completing initial hover flight tests of a subscale demonstrator.

Heat-exchanger technology developed by Reaction Engines for its Synergetic Air Breathing Rocket Engine could help transform ammonia into a green aviation fuel.

In 2022, the U.S. Air Force plans to have government pilots fly prototype eVTOL aircraft on military bases as part of the Agility Prime program, to evaluate potential use cases as the service moves toward fielding an initial tranche of vehicles in fiscal 2023.

The A321 upgrade will put Tianjin’s capability at the same level as Airbus facilities in Hamburg, Toulouse and Mobile, Alabama.

A discussion with Lux Capital Co-Founder Josh Wolfe and Partner Bilal Zuberi about where the venture capital investment company is placing its bets and how it pinpoints successful new aerospace and defense technologies.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

Why the outlook for Boeing’s 777X remains promising, despite certification and flight-testing delays.

Auxiliary propulsion to improve the positioning accuracy and gust response of drones is an early opportunity for cyclorotors.

Skyborg is the tip of the iceberg in a multiservice push to bring autonomous control systems from laboratories to the battlefield.

China has been a major driver of growth for Boeing and Airbus in the 2020s, but sees no urgency to buy more aircraft.

Washington State University is helping startup Zeva Aero with development of a single-person electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicle under a grant from the state’s Joint Center for Aerospace Technology Innovation.

VIETJET and SAFRAN established long-term partnership covering CFM56 engine/engine services, aircraft seats and interiors supply, plus management

HOWMET AEROSPACE had $27m net income on $1.3b sales in 3Q21 vs $74m on $1.2b in 3Q20; it has $726m in cash.

TRIMECH acquired ADAPTIVE CORP and FORWARD VISION to expand its Dassault Systèmes portfolio offering with CATIA, DELMIA, SIMULIA and ENOVIA.

Another Chinese startup has launched into the already crowded electric vertical takeoff and landing air taxi market.

Germany’s MTU Aero Engines has partnered with the European Union Aviation Safety Agency to develop certification requirements for hydrogen fuel cells in aircraft.

This is an abbreviated version of the article “ Airbus And Boeing Expect Slow Widebody Demand Recovery ” by Jens Flottau and Guy Norris from Aviation