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View from India: Green flight hope for the future

E&T

We focus on sustainable aerospace for safe travel. Airbus, a pioneer in the aerospace industry, operating in the commercial aircraft, helicopters, defence and space sectors, is on a green route. Chetak is the oldest helicopter in the Indian Air Force (IAF) and has been used for transporting cargo and rescue operations.

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Rotor Technologies propels advances in autonomous helicopters

Robotics Business Review

In late 2019, after years of studying aviation and aerospace engineering, Hector (Haofeng) Xu decided to learn to fly helicopters. Autonomous helicopters take off Using small aircraft to do things like fight fires and deliver cargo to offshore sites is not only dangerous, it’s also inefficient.

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Boeing will lay off 10% of its employees as a strike by factory workers cripples airplane production

Canadian Manufacturing

It will also stop building the cargo version of its 767 jet in 2027 after finishing current orders. Boeing has lost more than $25 billion since the start of 2019. He is a longtime aerospace-industry executive but an outsider to Boeing. The company will further delay the rollout of a new plane, the 777X, to 2026 instead of 2025.

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No end for Boeing labor strike as workers reject latest contract proposal

Canadian Manufacturing

Boeing factory workers voted against the company’s latest contract offer and remain on the picket lines six weeks into a strike that has stopped production of the aerospace giant’s bestselling jetliners. Boeing’s fortunes soured after two of its 737 Max jetliners crashed in October 2018 and March 2019, killing 346 people.

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Innovation on a Larger Scale

Fabricating & Metal Work

Those tools are making large-scale mold production, part machining, and process automation accessible to the broader aerospace, marine, and other industry sectors. Engineers from aerospace and other large-part sectors come to Ingersoll Machine Tools to collaborate on breakthroughs in additive and subtractive manufacturing.

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Looking back at 2022 Endeavour Awards

Manufacturer's Monthly

Hypersonix launched in 2019 under the guidance of David Waterhouse and Michael Smart and the company has gone from strength to strength ever since culminating in its awards at last year’s Endeavour Awards. Hypersonix is using scramjet technology and clean energy to form the basis for the manufacture of hypersonic vehicles.

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Is hydrogen the fuel of the future?

E&T

As the global aviation industry reeled from the impact of Covid-19, with thousands of jets grounded and passenger numbers down by 60 per cent, a bold initiative began at the Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) in Cranfield, England. Evaluation of this initial finding is ongoing. “We

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