Emirates Airline is quickly transitioning its Boeing 777 fleet to a new, customized airframe maintenance program based on its own operational data, and is already reaping benefits from the ambitious project, a senior executive from the airline said.
A German think tank is calling on Germany’s defense ministry to reconsider Lockheed Martin’s F-35 as a successor for the country’s Panavia Tornado fleet.
Over the next five years, Honeywell Aerospace expects manufacturers to deliver 4,100 new civil helicopters, spurred by the entry-into-service of several new products.
Although Dynetics has yet to accomplish the airborne recovery of an air-launched unmanned aircraft, DARPA has announced plans to award the company a sole-source follow-on contract for a mission demonstration under its Gremlins program.
The U.S. Space and Missile Systems Center intends to unveil a Space Situational Awareness Marketplace later this year to help satisfy the military’s insatiable appetite for data.
A manned EA-18G controlled two other Growlers in flight as part of a joint Boeing/U.S. Navy demo of manned-unmanned teaming by a carrier-based fighter aircraft.
CP Technologies, a subsidiary of Israel’s Aeronautics, has established a business unit to pursue U.S. defense and civil markets for the parent company’s range of unmanned aircraft systems.
In-seat system provider Astronics on Feb. 4 warned investors over financial effects of the Boeing 737 MAX production halt, as well as other “unfavorable” developments including a negative court ruling and ongoing restructuring charges.
U.S. startup Astra Space has emerged from stealth mode and identified itself as the sole remaining competitor in DARPA’s Launch Challenge to increase the flexibility and pace of flights into low Earth orbit.
U.S. Special Operations Command has revived the Defense Department’s on-again, off-again pursuit of a light attack aircraft fleet by announcing plans to acquire a new fleet of manned aircraft to perform the “armed overwatch” mission.
Air navigation service provider Naviair will establish a remote tower center at Billund Airport (BLL), Denmark’s second largest airport, to manage surrounding air traffic and ultimately provide central air traffic control for other regional airports.
The New Zealand government has signed a memorandum of understanding with urban air mobility startup Wisk to conduct a “world-first” passenger transport trial using its Cora electric self-flying air taxi.
Leidos, a giant provider of technology and services to U.S. government agencies, is buying two airport security and services units from L3Harris Technologies for $1 billion.
Solar research by NASA’s Heliophysics Division, NOAA and the National Science Foundation have been slowed by budgets that fail to keep pace with inflation, according to a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.
