Aerospace

The commercial rotorcraft industry has weathered the pandemic, but key programs are facing more delays.

North filed pilot reports on more than 120 aircraft and was a protector of his staff and the publication.

His path defined an era of singular achievement driven by skill, courage and a bit of luck.

Thinking ahead: What we can expect in the major aerospace and defense sectors.

Jason Fahlbush to Chief Operating Officer of Perrone Aerospace, Fultonville, NY.

ZEROAVIA, UK secured £12.3m in UK Government funding through the ATI Program for its HyFlyer II project to develop 19-seat hydrogen-electric-powered

FARADAIR AEROSPACE, UK added Honeywell, magniX, Cambridge Consultants and Nova Systems as partners to develop new Bio Electric Hybrid Aircraft (BEHA)

Olivier Andriès to Chief Executive Officer of Safran, France (effective January 1).

NASA has awarded Blue Origin a contract for launch services on its New Glenn rocket.

The Commercial Space Operations Center, now known as Comspoc, has formally split off as a standalone company from Analytical Graphics now that the latter has been acquired by Ansys.

BOOM SUPERSONIC, CO raised $50m funding in investment led by WRVI Capital's Michael Marks, and now $210m in funding.

SAAB and ROLLS-ROYCE launched joint research project to develop fiber-optic sensing technologies for aerospace propulsion systems; technology has

ILYUSHIN (United Aircraft Corporation) completed first flight of 68-seat Il-114-300 turboprop; aircraft has range of 1,400 km.

Startup ZeroAvia has raised $37.7 million in funding to develop a zero-emission hydrogen fuel-cell propulsion system to power 19-seat regional airliners.

Honeywell International’s venture capital arm has invested in DarwinAI, an “explainable” artificial intelligence (AI) company located in Waterloo, Canada.

A decade of research and simulation is transitioning into a flight test series of autonomous aircraft projects in 2021.

Despite the pandemic, the industry continued to make progress in sustainability, space, aviation safety and more.

The Boeing-Airbus duopoly cannot count on widebody sales anytime soon, so their hope is to get narrowbody production back to normal.

Redwire, the private equity-backed space rollup, said Dec. 15 it bought LoadPath, a developer of payload adapters, deployable structures and thermal products for the space industry.

Air taxi startup Blade Urban Air Mobility will be taken over by a special purpose acquisition company, setting up what could become the first publicly traded electric-powered air vehicle service provider as the technology emerges this decade.

CHARGER INVESTMENT PARTNERS acquired majority stake in ADVANCED COMPOSITE PRODUCTS AND TECHNOLOGY, CA.

STRATA MANUFACTURING, UAE delivered its first 787 vertical fin shipset to Boeing South Carolina for installation in early 2021.

GA TELESIS UK was authorized by Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs to operate customs warehouse at Bournemouth from January 2021; it expects to process

German air rescue service ADAC Luftrettung has reserved two VoloCity electric air taxis from Volocopter to prepare for operational emergency medical service tests of the piloted multicopters in 2023.

IRKUT (United Aircraft Corporation) completed first flight of MS-21-300 with PD-14s; aircraft can carry 163-211 passengers.