Aerospace Aircraft & Propulsion
Jul 17, 2020
More than 100,000 A&D jobs could disappear in the next two years. To attract more people, companies should focus on who they retain.
Jul 17, 2020
As regional turboprop makers strive for attention, the current crisis may help them be seen as relevant.
Jul 16, 2020
Roei Ganzarski is CEO of the Redmond, Washington-based magniX corporation
Jul 16, 2020
It may not seem like it, but the last 12 months have been fairly busy when it comes to civil aircraft entering flight testing.
Jul 15, 2020
With usual candor in an international program, Russia says it and China have not cooperated easily.
Apr 16, 2020
Boeing has begun modifying stabilizer control wiring on its stored Boeing 737 MAX fleet—one of several tasks that must be completed before the aircraft can be handed over to customers.
Apr 15, 2020
No one uses the words apocalyptic or cataclysmic—yet—but without a doubt, the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on aerospace and defense manufacturing will…
Apr 15, 2020
John Langford, founder and former CEO of Aurora Flight Sciences, is launching a new venture to develop hybrid-electric regional transport aircraft.
Apr 15, 2020
Howmet Aerospace has eight mostly smaller manufacturing plants that are closed because of the coronavirus, the company’s chief executive said late April 14, and more were shuttered in March when the Pittsburgh-based supplier was still part of Arconic.
Apr 15, 2020
Spirit AeroSystems—the primary supplier to Boeing including for much of the 737 MAX and which does substantial defense industry work—warned Wall Street on April 14 it will record a roughly $160 million loss for the recently ended first quarter of 2020, as well as a pretax loss of around $102 million.
Apr 14, 2020
The latest version of the Boeing 737 MAX master minimum equipment list (MMEL) corrects a conflict between the original MMEL’s allowances and pilot troubleshooting steps that allowed flights with no functioning autopilot, even as a checklist calls for autopilot engagement to correct flight-control issue.
Apr 14, 2020
Updated Boeing commercial airliner figures for 2020 through March reveal dramatic order cancellations and reduced deliveries as the air transport market continues to nosedive in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
Apr 14, 2020
Mitsubishi Aircraft is maintaining flight testing of a SpaceJet prototype at its Nagoya, Japan headquarters as pandemic-control measures prevent activity at its U.S. test base.