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Edition of 17 February Published every Thursday
Lead story

Defiant team selects Honeywell power for Army contender

The Defiant X flies twice as far and fast as the venerable Black Hawk helicopter it is designed to replace, and is currently undergoing testing in a digital combat environment. The Army's contract award is expected this year.

16 February 2022
Mark Cherry, vice president and general manager, Boeing Vertical Lift; Ricky Freeman, president, Defense & Space at Honeywell Aerospace and Paul Lemmo, president of Sikorsky celebrate Honeywell’s selection as engine provider for Defiant X.
Mark Cherry, vice president and general manager, Boeing Vertical Lift; Ricky Freeman, president, Defense & Space at Honeywell Aerospace and Paul Lemmo, president of Sikorsky celebrate Honeywell’s selection as engine provider for Defiant X.
The SupplyOn platform will support the expected major ramp up to produce the D328eco aircraft.

Deutsche builds a digital supply chain for the D328eco

The digitisation of the D328eco supply chain starts with the integration of around 30 strategically most important suppliers, who are also involved in the prototype. These deliver the top 20 main components.

16 February 2022
Tecnam P2010 H3PS is the first general aviation aircraft with a parallel hybrid configuration to take flight.

Tecnam's demonstrator proves the hybrid concept

The P2010 H3PS is powered by a 104kW Rotax 915 IS engine coupled with a 30kW Rolls-Royce electric motor in a fully integrated parallel hybrid configuration. Its useful load is the same as with a 180hp piston engine.

16 February 2022
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Albany Engineered Composites has been selected by Sikorsky Aircraft to produce the complete CH-53K aft transition assembly.

Albany wins ten-year contract for CH-53K assemblies

Long-lead funding is already under way to support the assembly of CH-53K aft transitions, and the contract is expected to be finalised in the first quarter of 2022 with first deliveries in 2023.

16 February 2022
Venturi Aviation and Airborne will partner on lightweight composite structures for the Echelon 01 all-electric aircraft, due to be launched in 2028.

Venturi plans advanced manufacturing for Echelon 01

The companies' collaboration has the objective to develop a digital and automated factory for composite lightweight structures which is much more flexible and dynamic and is based on on-demand manufacturing.

16 February 2022

Textron updates and brings back the Turbo Skylane

The Lycoming engine drives a constant-speed, three-blade, electric de-ice McCauley propeller, while the cockpit has Garmin G1000 NXi avionics with a new GI 275 electric standby, providing a brand-new cockpit interface.

16 February 2022
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Edition of 10 February 2022

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
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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