Aerospace

Jim Barber, Raynard Benvenuti, Kevin Gould and Elder Granger joined the Advisory Board of Alderman & Company.

The FAA says it will continue the work of a soon-to-end pilot effort with local and state governments and industry to introduce drones more regularly into the airspace system.

Universal rocket modules for the Angara A5 heavy launch vehicle have been sent by train to the Plesetsk military spaceport in preparation for the rocket family's first liftoff since 2014.

EASYJET plans August 31 to close bases at London Stansted, London Southend and Newcastle, leaving it with eight UK bases.

Alex Thurmond to Managing Director of Airborne Training Services, Wilmington, OH.

The mission set a SpaceX record for reuse of a Falcon 9 first stage.

AIRBORNE TRAINING SERVICES, OH was formed by ATSG to provide 757/767 and 777 pilot training using flight simulators provided by Avenger Flight Group.

AERO PRECISION/KELLSTROM DEFENSE adopted ALLCLEAR as new name.

THE AIRLINE MONITOR is forecasting delivery of 11,334 CFM-powered commercial aircraft over next 10 years (2020-2029); 5,912 aircraft will be delivered

EXECUTIVE JET SUPPORT, UK purchased ex-Eurowings ATR 42-300QC (158) for part out by PASCAN AVIATION, Canada.

DLR, Germany and MTU AERO ENGINES signed MOU to develop hydrogen-powered fuel cell propulsion system using a Dornier 228 as flight demonstrator.

NUST MISIS, Russia has developed method for reinforcing nanofibers in silicon carbide to increase its fracture toughness by 1.5 times to expand its

CTT SYSTEMS announced that it has put development of its Anti-Fuselage-Condensation system for line-fit on A320 Family on hold after Airbus removed

Shawn Trogdon to Chief Executive Officer of Wencor Group, Atlanta; Chris Curtis is retiring.

Planned flight trials at FAA-designated UAS test sites in New York and Virginia will evaluate remote-identification technologies to track drones from the ground in increasingly complex traffic environments.

Following their successful Demo-2 test flight, NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than Oct. 23 for the first operational commercial launch of astronauts to the International Space Station.

UK talks up FlyZero; JAXA’s low-boom breakthrough; EHang air taxi in Austria; VerdeGo runs hybrid; and SkyDrive aims for 2023.

An Ariane 5 rocket carrying the second Northrop Grumman Mission Extension Vehicle along with U.S. and Japanese telecommunications satellites successfully lifted off from Kourou, French Guiana, late Aug. 15.

China’s EHang is to launch an urban air mobility trial in Linz, Austria, the first operation of its kind in Europe.

AIRBUS VENTURES, CA has secured investment commitments from Development Bank of Japan (DBJ), Mitsubishi UFJ Lease and Fuyo General Lease Co. (FGL) for

The advanced air mobility market is beginning to differentiate by manufacturer, by mission and by timing.

Readers write about NASA’s Mars 2020 mission, Japan’s Aegis Ashore plan and Boeing’s midmarket airplane strategy.

NATIONAL AERONAUTIC ASSOCIATION (NAA) is awarding USAF-Boeing X-37B team with the 2019 Robert J. Collier Trophy.

AVIATION WEEK NETWORK revised its forecast and now projects worldwide delivery of 16,900 commercial aircraft (33,900 engines) over next 10 years, down

NASA has awarded New York State’s FAA-designated unmanned aircraft systems test site an $897,000 task order to research automation technology for vertiport operations.