The A&D industry is facing tough challenges with their future workforce, as new generations of workers demand new work environments and collaboration tools. It’s therefore becoming increasingly important for businesses to provide the right collaboration tools and to obtain the right information to shorten their learning curve.

A memorandum of understanding (MOU) between Etihad Airways Engineering and Airbus was signed this week to develop a new maintenance service provision for the A380 in Abu Dhabi from 2017.

Teledyne Controls and GE Aviation have signed a strategic partnership that should simplify the flow of flight data off aircraft, and expand its value through GE’s cloud-based platform that can extract greater value.

At the end of year 2026, the Eastern European in-service engine fleet is expected to reach over 4,214 engines.

The International Bureau of Aviation (IBA) surveyed the industry and found that airlines spend $1.65m, on average, on extra costs related to each narrowbody redelivery to lessors.

Built like a 1970s pickup truck, the trusty Mil Mi-17 is becoming popular with oil and gas companies in the Americas, who are increasingly sending their pilots and maintainers to Alabama to stay up to speed.

Following the debut of ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) on CFM’s LEAP engine, other manufacturers are boosting research into the new material.

Aviation Week visited the U.S. Air Force’s first operational F-35 squadron to get an inside look at how maintainers fixed a problem with faulty insulation on the aircraft’s avionics cooling lines.