Based in Washington, Michael Bruno is Aviation Week Network’s Executive Editor for Business. He oversees coverage of aviation, aerospace and defense business issues, and is editor in chief of Aviation Week Executive Intelligence newsletters. Beyond reporting, Bruno helps organize related Aviation Week conferences, hosts podcasts and webinars, and speaks publicly as a subject matter expert on industry issues. Since joining Aviation Week in 2005, he has won several Jesse H. Neal and Aerospace Media awards. He has a master's degree from Syracuse University and a bachelor's from Vanderbilt University.
Cargo UAV startup Sabrewing Aircraft is getting fresh funding and should be able to complete a full-sized preproduction prototype of its Rhaegal vehicle and begin “preliminary” flight testing in time for another key funding infusion eyed in the third quarter.
Astronics, a key supplier of aircraft passenger seat power and other products to the aerospace and defense (A&D) industries, closed on its sale of its semiconductor business unit, largely exiting that business. But the deal’s terms were revised downward, the company acknowledged.
Western aerospace providers are continuing to build up their Indian facilities, with Thales and Magellan Aerospace announcing they opened new sites in Bengaluru.
