Aerospace

We provide answers to some of the key questions about the UK’s looming exit from the EU.

LOS ANGELES AND SEATTLE – After two days of delays caused by bad weather Boeing’s 777-9, the first of the company’s new long range 777X flagship

SEATTLE -- Even as Boeing recommits itself to returning the 737 MAX to service by the middle of 2020, the company says it is going back to the drawing

Apache Aviation, a flying school based in Dijon, France, is enjoying brisk demand for its new advanced upset prevention and recovery training (UPRT) module, after EASA mandated such pilot instruction in December 2019.

A U.S. Air Force low-cost unmanned aircraft system demonstrator returned to flight on Jan. 23 after a three-month hiatus caused by a landing mishap.

NUST MISIS, Russia developed cost-effective method for producing composite titanium/aluminum spherical powders for 3D printing of aircraft components.

Russia’s United Engine Corporation (UEC) has delivered its first two PD-14 turbofan engines to the Irkutsk aviation plant.

Swiss Post announced Jan. 23 that it will resume transporting laboratory samples by drone, ending an eight-month grounding that the postal carrier ordered after one of its Matternet M2 quadcopters crashed in Zurich.

President/CEO John Holmes talks labor shortages, the MAX crisis, technological enablers and lucrative opportunities.

Airbus introduces advanced autopilot modes and a vortex-ring-state prediction tool on its new twin-engine medium helicopter.

Automaker investments and flying prototypes are boosting the credibility of urban air mobility.

IPOs, mergers and strategic moves reshuffle industrial landscape for Israeli aerospace.

Boeing did not have the best year, and how many aircraft can and will be built will likely be open questions for years.

Optical sensors have joined Israel’s elaborate and increasingly more powerful air surveillance network

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

RIP Boeing Phantom Express; UK offloads AWACS aircraft; CMV-22B delivery imminent; UK upgrading training helo requirements.

General Atomics wants to turn the MQ-1C into a “mothership” for the Army’s future Air Launched Effects (ALE).

Deliveries of single-aisle airliners plummeted nearly 24% in 2019, largely due to the grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX, but should bounce back more than 34% in 2020, Teal Group analyst Richard Aboulafia said Jan. 23.

Israeli startup Eviation’s prototype Alice electric regional aircraft caught fire during ground testing at Prescott Regional Airport, Arizona, on Jan. 22.

PwC reports there were 447 aerospace/defense M&A deals worth $93.8b in 2019 vs 464 worth $59b in 2018; average deal size rose 68%, mainly due to

Matthew Mejía to Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of Strategy & Investor Relations of Aerion, Reno, NV.

EMBRAER is studying a new turboprop aircraft for 2025-2026; and BOEING said it is looking forward to reviewing business case and is excited by

BOEING postponed planned first flight of 777X on Jan 23 due to weather and was assessing possibility of flying on Jan 24.

ELEMENT secured GE S400 accreditation from GE for its 30,000 sq ft metallic/non-metallic materials testing laboratory in Shanghai, China.

Drone enterprise software developer PrecisionHawk on Jan. 23 announced a change of leadership.