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Constellium and Tarmac Aerosave Achieve First Closed-Loop Aerospace-Grade Aluminium Recycling

Tarmac Aerosave and Constellium have developed a process to recycle aluminium from end-of-life aircraft into new aerospace-grade ingots, achieving the industry’s first fully closed-loop aluminium cycle. The initiative delivers high-performance material for future aircraft while advancing circular economy goals without sacrificing metal properties.

2025-06-15T23:05:12.427275-07:00

AINonline

GKN Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney Extend Fan Blade Repair Agreement Through 2029

2025-06-18T01:52:04.209533-07:00

FlightGlobal

Leonardo Seeks JV to Rescue Aerostructures Unit, Forge Industrial Champion

2025-06-17T09:10:48.289303-07:00

Reuters

Airbus delivery pace slows as engine and lavatory bottlenecks idle nearly 40 A320neos

2025-06-11T21:55:37.579577-07:00

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Aviation Week

MC-21 Service Entry Slips to Late 2026, Aeroflot Confirms Aeroflot Group, the launch customer for Russia’s new MC-21 narrowbody, says delivery and commercial service entry will be deferred until late 2026. The programme, held up by certification roadblocks and import-substitution supply chain constraints, now faces a delay of at least two years from its original 2024 target.

2025-06-24T09:35:16.569173-07:00

MC-21 Service Entry Slips to Late 2026, Aeroflot Confirms

GeekWire

New Frontier Aerospace hot-fires 3D-printed Mjolnir liquid rocket engine New Frontier Aerospace has completed a series of successful hot-fire tests of its 3D-printed Mjolnir liquid rocket engine, touted as the world’s most advanced compact pump-fed design. The milestone advances the company’s flight-test program for hypersonic and small satellite launch applications.

2025-06-23T19:43:45.676026-07:00

New Frontier Aerospace hot-fires 3D-printed Mjolnir liquid rocket engine

FlightGlobal

UAC Flies First All-Russian-Made Superjet 100 to Zhukovsky for Certification Testing United Aircraft Corporation has flown its first fully substituted Superjet 100 prototype (serial 97003), equipped with domestically built systems and Aviadvigatel PD-8 engines, from Komsomolsk-on-Amur through Irkutsk and Novosibirsk to Zhukovsky to begin certification trials following its April 23 maiden flight.

2025-06-23T00:15:14.000334-07:00

UAC Flies First All-Russian-Made Superjet 100 to Zhukovsky for Certification Testing

Aviation Week

OEMs Push Next-Gen Narrowbody EIS Toward 2040 Commercial aviation stakeholders are revising expectations for next-generation single-aisle aircraft, with leading airlines, lessors and manufacturers now anticipating launch closer to 2040 due to development complexity, regulatory hurdles and supply-chain constraints. Insiders say OEM proposals and early studies still grapple with fuel-efficiency and certification challenges.

2025-06-22T12:15:24.637744-07:00

OEMs Push Next-Gen Narrowbody EIS Toward 2040

FlightGlobal

Elysian to Reveal Second-Generation E9X Battery Airliner, Taps Aernnova for Wing Studies Elysian Aircraft will unveil later this year an updated design of its E9X battery-powered airliner and has contracted Spain’s Aernnova to kick off preliminary wing development studies, advancing work on its zero-emission regional transport program amid intensifying competition in sustainable aviation.

2025-06-20T03:07:55.363392-07:00

Elysian to Reveal Second-Generation E9X Battery Airliner, Taps Aernnova for Wing Studies

CNBC

Japan outpaces the West with a rare-earth supply chain playbook ahead of China’s export squeeze As China signals tighter curbs on rare-earth exports, Japan’s years-long diversification—from securing Southeast Asian mines to ramping up domestic processing—has insulated it from potential disruptions, offering a blueprint that Western nations, still reliant on Chinese supplies for critical aerospace, defense electronics, and renewable-energy components, have yet to match.

2025-06-20T01:35:11.794783-07:00

Japan outpaces the West with a rare-earth supply chain playbook ahead of China’s export squeeze

Aviation Week

SAF Scale-Up Faces 2030 Feedstock Supply Cliff, SkyNRG Warns As SAF production ramps up globally, SkyNRG warns that feedstock supply could hit a tipping point around 2030, posing a risk to the industry's decarbonization trajectory and raising urgent questions about biomass sourcing and policy support.

2025-06-18T14:39:05.647281-07:00

SAF Scale-Up Faces 2030 Feedstock Supply Cliff, SkyNRG Warns

Aviation Week

X-Bow Systems Eyes European Partnerships for Containerized Rocket Factory At the Paris Air Show, tactical missile propulsion supplier X-Bow Systems pitched its containerized rocket factory concept to prospective European manufacturers, aiming to localize production of rocket motors and bolster allied supply chain resilience.

2025-06-18T13:52:11.708217-07:00

X-Bow Systems Eyes European Partnerships for Containerized Rocket Factory

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