Aerospace

Boeing is looking for the lowest sustainable production rate for its suppliers so they are still there to ramp up someday.

“Our target is very squarely a U.S. city. We call it our North Star,” Wisk CEO Gary Gysin said. "We’re not announcing what that city will be, but we know where we are going to fly.

Ask the Editors: Industry consolidation and growing automation and digitization will exacerbate pandemic-related layoffs.

Roger Raley to President of Alpine Advanced Materials, Dallas.

Dr. Kristen H. Brosnan to Technology Director of Superior Technical Ceramics (STC), St. Albans, VT.

NXTCOMM opened 10,000 sq ft antenna manufacturing facility in Atlanta.

ROYAL ADHESIVES & SEALANTS (H.B. Fuller), CA was added to Boeing's Premier Bidder (for work) Program, which has approximately 100 suppliers.

General Atomics has demonstrated the first launch and control of small, air-dropped UAS from an MQ-1C.

AAR agreed to sell commercial/military aerospace composites business at Clearwater, FL/Scaramento, CA to AE OpCo III; deal is not core to AAR’s

Mining lunar ice could rein in the cost of future human cislunar space activities as well as expeditions to Mars, according to proponents.

Ask the Editors: Aviation Week data shows the U.S. military operates about three times as many manned aircraft as the Chinese military.

Patrick Schoenhoff to Technical Director and General Manager-St. Louis and Baldwin Park Repair Facilities of AMETEK AMERON.

AIRBUS has completed its Autonomous Taxi, Take-Off and Landing (ATTOL) project. It achieved autonomous taxiing, take-off/landing of a commercial

MAC AERO INTERIORS was approved by Airbus to produce interior components (initially A380 literature pockets) at Tallinn.

THYSSENKRUPP AEROSPACE, Germany was selected by Hyundai WIA to provide materials and global supply chain support for production of Korea Utility

BOEING received FAA approval to begin flight testing the 737 MAX; re-certification of aircraft is expected by end of 2020.

To mitigate disruption, leaders have swiftly embraced new ways of working and deployed digital productivity tools.

Rolls progresses electric propulsion; ZeroAvia flies electric in UK; Terrafugia unveils eVTOL; and Electra.aero builds team.

Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo soared over its new home base near Las Cruces, New Mexico, on June 25, completing the second glide flight since relocating from the company’s manufacturing and test hub in Mojave, California.

Plans to establish a vertical-launch spaceport in Northern Scotland have been approved by local authorities, a significant milestone for the project.

This webinar took place June 26, 2020. As it deals with fallout from the COVID-19 crisis, Airbus must define a plan to lower production over the

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

Fuel cells may be more suited to smaller commercial aircraft, while larger ones would retain turbine engines.

Face it: you don’t really know your supply chain. Even when times were good in A&D manufacturing, regular deliveries required repeated heroics. Now

NASA is looking into flying astronauts and other personnel aboard commercial suborbital spacecraft such as those in development by Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin.