Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Bill Carey
Alphabet subsidiary Wing has paused some of its drone package deliveries in the suburbs of Canberra, Australia, after one of its drones was attacked by a raven.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Steve Trimble
A move by the U.S. Army to field a large, fixed-wing surveillance aircraft could face an extra layer of scrutiny within the Pentagon.
Multi-Mission Aircraft

By Graham Warwick
Embraer subsidiary Eve Urban Air Mobility continues to build its orderbook of conditional commitments as it looks toward completing a deal to go public through a merger with a blank-check company.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly for a $1 billion bill to replenish Iron Dome interceptors for Israel on Sept. 23, one day after a group of lawmakers stripped the measure from another spending bill.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Guy Norris
In response to the proliferation of new space launch systems and small satellite deployments, German Aerospace Center DLR has developed a Launch Coordination Center to help manage the safe and efficient launch and re-entry of missions through European airspace.
Commercial Space

By Brian Everstine
How many C-130s does the U.S. Air Force need?
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Airbus’ plans to adapt a business jet into an X-plane to test future wing technologies has focused new attention on its UpNext subsidiary that will run the trials.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Environmental groups have renewed their call for the U.S. government to set a tougher rule for aircraft greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions than the CO2 certification standard agreed by ICAO.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
China’s Autoflight has announced completion of a $100 million Series A funding round, which it believes may be the largest yet in the country’s fledging electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicle industry.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Chen Chuanren
The RSAF’s IAI Heron 1 medium altitude long endurance (MALE) UAS was paired with an undisclosed “small UAS” during an exercise held at Mountain Home AFB, Idaho.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Space Force’s recently disclosed effort to field a space-based ground-moving targeted indicator capability is part of a coming migration of aerospace missions to orbit, especially in the realm of tactical intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance.
AFA Air Space and Cyber Conference

By Brian Everstine
U.S. Air National Guard pilots are flying against officially retired F-117s as a way to practice homeland defense missiles against cruise missiles, with the stealth characteristics of the Nighthawks serving as a representation of the threat.
AFA Air Space and Cyber Conference

By Molly McMillin
Bombardier is investing in major expansions of its worldwide service center network as it grows the segment, with plans to add hundreds of technicians over the next 18 months.
Maintenance & Training

By Steve Trimble
Raytheon has expanded sales and options for gallium nitride-enabled active electronically scanned array radars for fighters.
AFA Air Space and Cyber Conference

By Michael Bruno
How fast will U.S. military jet and large commercial aircraft build rates pick up?
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
After announcing a joint venture in June, startup Xeriant has agreed to merge with XTI Aircraft in a bid to secure the funding needed to develop the TriFan 600 hybrid-electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing business aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
The EBS system uses a 100-kW electric motor connected to the main gearbox which could provide up to 30 sec. of additional power in the event of an engine failure, allowing the pilot to make a safe auto-rotation landing.
Emerging Technologies

By Mark Carreau
NASA has awarded Aerojet Rocketdyne a $600 million maximum value contract for the design, certification, production and other requirements for the main engine of the Orion crew capsule.
Space

By Chen Chuanren
Under the name Volocopter (Chengdu) Technology, the new venture aims to offer UAM solutions to China.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
Airbus has committed to the advanced air mobility market targeting the certification of a winged multi-copter by 2025.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
The startup has decided it wants to start flying people as soon as possible and so will certify the autonomous single-seat Heaviside H2 now in flight testing as its entry into the market.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Reaching a target of 10% SAF use by 2030 will require the scaling up of production to at least 9.5 billion gal./year from the less than 10 million gal. produced in 2020.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Thierry Dubois
As Airbus is exploring several technologies to drastically cut and eventually annihilate an aircraft’s CO2 emissions, its design engineers are considering micro-hybridization as a starting point in electrification.
Emerging Technologies

By Chen Chuanren
Boeing will build a final assembly facility for the Airpower Teaming System (ATS) in the state of Queensland, Australia, to begin serial production of the autonomous unmanned aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
The goal is to be able to fly missions longer than 200 km (125 mi.) with nine passengers and zero emissions.
Aircraft & Propulsion