Aerospace

Los Angeles has already been identified as early launch market by urban air taxi developers Archer and Joby Aviation, and now Volocopter.

The oil and gas company has set itself a target of producing 2 million metric tons of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) a year by 2025—a significant near-term scale-up in supply since Shell is not producing SAF at present.

With the regional aircraft market split between Embraer and ATR, U.S. airlines will have to buy in for Embraer to break into turboprops.

Sweden-based SCA, Europe’s largest private forest owner, and Nordic energy company St1 have established a joint venture to produce and sell liquid biofuels, including sustainable aviation fuel.

American Airlines has become an anchor partner in Breakthrough Energy Catalyst, investing $100 million in the Bill Gates-founded initiative to accelerate clean energy technologies needed to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.

Jimmy Wu, of Infinity Air, was elected to the Board of Directors of Aviation Suppliers Association.

Mary Wanke, of VX Consultants, was elected to the Board of Directors of Aviation Suppliers Association.

Nicole Wright, of Wyatt Aerospace, was elected to the Board of Directors of Aviation Suppliers Association.

SPATIAL has S7 Airlines order for A320 cabin service trainer and door trainer.

C&L AVIATION GROUP opened 27,000 sq ft parts warehouse at Bangor, ME to store new ERJ 145, E170, ATR, and Challenger inventories, and now has three

RECARO was selected by Qatar Airways to supply CL3810 economy class seats for 20 A321neos starting in late 2022.

FLYHT AEROSPACE SOLUTIONS has acquired the Water Vapor Sensing System (WVSS-II) product line from SpectraSensors.

ASCENDANCE FLIGHT TECHNOLOGIES, Toulouse closed €10m funding round backed by Habert Dassault Finance, Celeste Management, M Capital, Kima Ventures and

AAR has $41m US National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) contract to convert a 737-700 to FlexCombi configuration.

PRATT & WHITNEY and FAA are each investing $25m to develop ultra-quiet engine fan and advanced combustion technology to reduce noise, emissions, and

Guillaume Daudin to Senior Vice President-Programs of ATR, Toulouse.

GKN AEROSPACE was selected by Vertical Aerospace, UK to supply electrical wiring interconnection system (EWIS)/aerostructures for VA-X4 eVTOL aircraft

UNIVERSAL HYDROGEN is establishing engineering/design center in Toulouse to support development of conversion kits for retrofitting regional aircraft

Low Earth orbit is new home of several small-comsat constellations of enormous bandwidth—but no ability to exchange data with each other.

KVS Technologies has entered into agreement with Air Methods’ Spright, for one-stop linear inspection services for utility companies.

As manufacturers strive to reduce the fuel burn and emissions of their next generation of commercial airliners, longer wings are near the top of the list.

Electric Accel takes off; Moog flies SureFly; Tulips cleans airports; Terrafugia launches UAV; and Hamburg’s drone sandbox.

The SpaceX Dragon Resilience splashed down off the coast of Cape Canaveral at 7:06 p.m. EDT, concluding the company’s fourth human spaceflight and first without NASA oversight and NASA astronauts.

The credit is intended to stimulate production and consumption of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) by reducing the price premium over conventional jet fuel.

SpaceX cannot launch the Starship/Super Heavy vehicle until FAA completes its licensing process, which includes the environmental review and other safety and financial responsibility requirements.