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The Airframer Bulletin

Aerospace manufacturing, week by week — reported by Airframer’s editors

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Edition of 10 February Published every Thursday
Lead story

Leonardo partners Vertical for VX4 composite fuselage

With a rapidly filling order book Vertical has brought the aerostructures development and manufacturing skills of Leonardo at Grottaglie on board to co-develop the fuselage of its VX4 eVTOL.

10 February 2022
Vertical Aerospace says it will scale up to produce up to 2,000 VX4 electric aircraft per year.
Vertical Aerospace says it will scale up to produce up to 2,000 VX4 electric aircraft per year.
The Cessna SkyCourier has rolled out of the Textron Aviation manufacturing facility in Wichita.

Textron rolls out first production SkyCourier

Production of the SkyCourier incorporates monolithic machining throughout the airframe. With this technique, major assemblies are milled from a single piece of metal rather than assembled from smaller pieces.

10 February 2022
The Black Eagle 50H helicopter has capacity to carry up to 12kg of payloads and long endurance for its category.

Steadicopter extends Black Eagle range with hybrid power

Featuring a hybrid engine and propulsion system, the Black Eagle 50H combines the attributes of the electric 50E and the gas-powered 50 variants in one cost-effective and simple to operate platform.

10 February 2022
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Triumph will supply the primary thermal acoustic insulation system for the Airbus Canada A220 aircraft.

Airbus selects Triumph Interiors for A220 insulation

Triumph promises an innovative, collaborative solution to optimising the thermal-acoustic insulation system throughout the life-cycle of the A220. The system will be manufactured in Mexico.

10 February 2022
The UH-60 Black Hawk successfully flew for 30 minutes without anyone onboard.

Crewless Black Hawk flight proves DARPA's concept

ALIAS is designed for existing manned aircraft, enabling safe reduced crew operations. Adding high levels of automation, it also provides a platform for integrating autonomous capabilities tailored for specific missions.

10 February 2022
Benito Trevino, general manager – additive integrated product team, GE Aviation and Chris Philp, ATC site leader, GE Aviation.

GE Aviation invests in metal additive production systems

After three years fine tuning material parameters GE Additive is ready to deliver systems to increase the manufacturing capacity of GE Aviation's state-of-the-art development facility.

10 February 2022
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Edition of 3 February 2022

Dornier Seawings acquires amphibious eVTOL project

The Flywhale will be produced with the name DS-2C by Dornier Seawings, and will be used as a research platform to enter the advanced air mobility segment as the DS-2C-X-eVTOL, an amphibious eVTOL jet.

2 February 2022
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Edition of 27 January 2022

Multiple technologies take to the air aboard Airbus's FTB2

FTB2's advantages also extend into the manufacturing process, from the use of Scalmalloy and additive manufacturing, to a new assembly method for the aero structures of the wing.

26 January 2022
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