Federal air-accident investigators for the first time directly called on American and European helicopter makers to move toward putting cockpit video recorders on most models, bypassing U.S. aviation regulators and escalating a debate about privacy in the air.
Boeing plans to shed more than 13,000 employees, including the first round of compulsory cuts as part of previously announced plans triggered by the coronavirus-driven collapse in global air travel.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the U.S. would stop allowing foreign companies to facilitate Iran’s civil nuclear activities, a core provision of the 2015 international nuclear agreement.
The company’s launch of two NASA astronauts into orbit was canceled because of adverse weather, delaying a new era of corporate-driven space missions. The next attempt is expected Saturday.
A company founded by entrepreneur Richard Branson to launch small satellites botched its initial demonstration flight, as a rocket released from a specially outfitted jumbo jet failed to reach low-earth orbit.
With the scheduled launch of two NASA astronauts into orbit Wednesday, Space Exploration Technologies aims to propel the U.S. into a historic new era of commercially led space exploration.
As China’s advanced arsenal grows, the Pentagon must focus on emerging technologies, not traditional weapons platforms.
Business for companies that repossess jets when airlines go bust is poised to take off as the economic repercussions of the coronavirus pandemic wreak havoc on global travel.
Delta Air Lines said it would remove its 18 Boeing 777 aircraft from its fleet by the end of the year, and is also accelerating its retirement plan for the MD-88 and MD-90s, which will exit the fleet in June.
The Boston-based information storage and management company said one of its foreign subsidiaries provided products and services for more than a decade to at least two entities blacklisted by the U.S.
Defense and Treasury department officials can’t agree on the fate of a $17 billion loan program—which apparently has received scant demand—set up to help companies crucial to national security weather the crisis.
An Iranian launch last week marked the coming out of a military program that Tehran has kept mostly under wraps for a decade—and U.S. officials said serves as a guise for the development of intercontinental ballistic missiles.
The world’s biggest aerospace companies outlined survival plans as their airline customers reeled from the coronavirus pandemic and the near-collapse of global passenger air travel.
General Electric said it was cutting $2 billion in costs to offset falling sales and profits, as the company’s aviation business was hit hard by the virtual halt to air travel because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Boeing faces criminal and civil scrutiny into years of widespread quality-control lapses on its 737 MAX assembly line.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said it launched its first military satellite into space, a move American officials have warned could advance Tehran’s missile capabilities, amid renewed tensions with the U.S.
The Covid-19 crisis is a severe blow for companies like Boeing that build planes, but it is an even harder one for those that repair them.
Boeing said it will resume limited production of its wide-body commercial jetliners in the Seattle area on April 20 after a three-week shutdown triggered by travel restrictions linked to the coronavirus pandemic.
The weapons test was Pyongyang’s fifth of the year and took place a day before the country’s holiday commemorating founder Kim Il Sung and a South Korean national election.
The plane maker is offering buyout packages to its workforce as it comes to grips with the coronavirus pandemic’s toll on the global aviation industry.
