Aerospace

ACR GROUP, FL agreed to acquire FREEFLIGHT SYSTEMS, TX (avionics).

FLYHT has $1.77m order from Azur Aviation, Turkey to provide FLYHTHealth and FLYHTMail services to support its fleet of 737s, 757s, 767s and 777s.

C&L AEROSPACE purchased >1,400-line item ATR inventory from Intertrade.

Spirit’s eVTOL tieup; electrified commuter aircraft; kitplane-based MALE flies; Volocopter raises more funds; Sweden’s electric aviation.

AÉRO MONTRÉAL unveiled study by PwC Canada that found CSeries/A220 program generated a cumulative economic impact in Canada in 2007-2018 of $6.6b to

Ukrainian engineers are helping Chinese industry with the study of engine designs.

“We see numerous companies that are pushing really cool technology that has a chance to really change the world,” Air Force acquisition executive Will Roper says.

The Neuron demonstrator flew a series of collaborative missions with five Dassault Rafale fighters and an E-3 airborne early warning platform.

Russia’s Superjet 100 (SSJ100) regional aircraft has lost its last association with former designer Sukhoi Company.

A logistics division of German rail operator Deutsche Bahn and a venture fund established by Japan Airlines have joined Volocopter’s Series C funding round.

Twelve years after the requirement emerged, the U.S. military finally appears serious about acquiring a light-attack aircraft fleet

In a breakthrough use of computer vision, Airbus makes swift progress in its autonomous takeoff-and-landing project.

While lawmakers always declare the president’s request dead on arrival on Capitol Hill, this year there was more than the usual dismissal by a rival branch of government.

Stratospheric test flights to come as PHASA-35 high-altitude pseudo-satellite makes first flight in Australia.

Undoing Boeing’s stockpile of roughly 900 grounded, parked and partially built MAXs and recoordinating its supply chain could take years.

Bombardier’s retreat shows why governments should seed technology development and let industry carry the risk of creating new products.

The company aims to produce up to 42 engines per year at the new plant.

Long-running blended wing body studies have so far come to nothing, but Airbus may have the technology to bring it to reality.

Russian Naval aircraft’s first flight; Space Force to integrate MILsatcom; F/A-18s tested in Finland; and Turkey’s armed drone.

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

GALLANT CAPITAL PARTNERS, CA completed recapitalization and growth investment in CASSAVANT MACHINING, AZ (precision machined components).

MTU AERO ENGINES had record €488.4m net income on record €4.63b revenues in 2019 vs €453.3m on €4.57b in 2018; commercial maintenance revenues dropped

A National Academies study of advanced aerial mobility requested by NASA concludes the commercial cargo market is likely to be an early adopter of autonomous air vehicle technology for rural cargo operations, including “middle mile” distribution and “last mile” package deliveries.

The GDP and interest rate assumptions on which the budget is predicated are questionable.

DARPA fiscal 2019 budget request targets new weapons and communications concepts for contested environments.