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Embraer is confident of adding to its already 10-strong customer list for the C-390 Millennium tactical transport and KC-390 tanker this year, with the Middle East and Latin American markets each holding potential.
An otherwise solid set of airline safety statistics through much of 2024 was transformed by two deadly losses, while pilot action elsewhere kept the final figures from being much worse.
An almost two-month-long strike by aerospace workers contributed to Boeing’s defence unit delivering a reduced total of 110 aircraft last year: down from 157 in 2023.
Ten years ahead of the planned entry into service of the UK’s Tempest fighter, a cross-party parliamentary committee has raised questions over the nation’s ability to train new pilots to operate the stealthy type.
The UK aerospace industry faces a major challenge in preventing a skills gap between production of the Eurofighter Typhoon and a future manned type via the trinational Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP), a cross-party parliamentary group has warned.
Last year saw more airline fatal accidents and fatalities worldwide than any 12-month period since 2018, raising the question as to whether a decade or so of safety performance improvement has begun to reverse.
Beijing is taking steps to advance its airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) capabilities, with the emergence of the long-rumoured Xian KJ-3000.
Beijing has staged a late-year aerospace coup by showing off not one, but two developmental stealth aircraft.
A Swiss start-up with a unique concept hopes to be the first to bring to market a purpose-built electric training aircraft.
Even as its first tranche of projects begin to really hit their stride, the EU’s Clean Aviation body is preparing the ground for its second phase of EU funding, set to begin in February 2025.
