Connecting Skies • Bridging Continents
Syensqo has secured a new long-term supply agreement with Airbus covering prepregs, RTM resins, adhesives and primers across the manufacturer’s commercial aircraft, defence and space, and helicopter platforms — locking in materials supply for a customer executing one of the steepest production ramp-ups in commercial aerospace history, and doing so for the one Syensqo division […]
Airbus flight test aircraft MSN707 has completed the longest flight in its programme to date, returning from Melbourne to Toulouse in 24 hours and 24 minutes covering 12,460 nautical miles — a development flight validating the fuel, cabin and crew rest systems that will underpin Qantas’s Project Sunrise routes, with two Qantas captains on the
Boeing delivered 171 commercial aircraft in the second quarter, up 14% year-on-year and its highest quarterly total since 2018, while beginning the transition to a 47-per-month 737 production rate and activating low-rate initial production on the 737 North Line. Certification flight testing has been completed on the 737-7 and 737-10, and the 777X has entered
ACC Aviation has completed an independent aircraft asset monitoring assignment for an international aviation finance institution, providing continuous technical oversight across a portfolio of next-generation commercial aircraft — an engagement model that reflects lenders’ growing emphasis on protecting collateral value throughout the financing term rather than assessing it only at the point of transaction. CONTINUOUS
Textron has reported second quarter 2026 revenues of $3.8 billion and adjusted earnings of $1.62 per share, with revenue growth across all four manufacturing segments — while disclosing that its full-year outlook depends on additional US government funding for the MV-75 Cheyenne programme, and confirming it has initiated a sale process for its Industrial segment.
The Federal Aviation Administration has set out its full deployment roadmap for Mobile Clearance, the digital departure clearance capability allowing general and business aviation pilots to request IFR clearances through ForeFlight and Garmin applications, with evaluation ending in February 2027 and nationwide deployment following — a decade after concept development began with MITRE in 2016.
Boeing and General Motors have signed a definitive agreement to sell HRL Laboratories — the Malibu-based research institution they have jointly owned since its founding lineage began in 1948 — to IBM, which intends to use HRL’s silicon-spin qubit expertise to accelerate its quantum computing roadmap, with both sellers retaining partnership arrangements on quantum applications.
NASA astronaut Chris Williams and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev have landed safely in Kazakhstan aboard Soyuz MS-28, concluding a 241-day mission that covered 3,856 orbits and more than 102 million miles — and produced research spanning cancer drug delivery, in-space semiconductor manufacturing and two spacewalks including the Canadarm2 robotic arm repair. PARACHUTE-ASSISTED
Sling Aircraft North America has announced the Sling 2M, a MOSAIC-compliant version of the South African-manufactured Sling NGT trainer with a 1,540 lb gross weight, IFR capability and the Garmin AXIS Flight System as standard — with factory production ready to ship immediately, on the day the MOSAIC rule takes effect. BUILT ALONGSIDE THE STANDARDS
FL Technics has appointed Saulius Bajarunas as Chief Executive Officer effective 1 September 2026, elevating an executive who has played a central role in the MRO provider’s international expansion, as outgoing CEO Zilvinas Lapinskas assumes the top role at parent company Avia Solutions Group. INTERNAL SUCCESSION FOLLOWS PARENT COMPANY LEADERSHIP CHANGE FL Technics, the
