By lining up cruising aircraft in a V-shaped formation favored by Canada geese, carriers would be able to produce a leap in efficiency without investing in structural makeovers or futuristic technology.
Lockheed Martin is one of six companies sharing a $499 million contract for research into aerospace systems, Reuters reported, citing a Pentagon announcement.
“Siemens PLM has a strategy to reinvent manufacturing by threading digital information from concept, through design to monitoring performance in the field,” writes Advanced Manufacturing Media Contributing Editor Bruce Morey.
According to the consultancy MarketsandMarkets, aerospace firms will be using additive manufacturing (AM) to make more than $3 billion in parts by 2022, up from a bit over $700 million in 2017. Aerospace and AM have a mutually beneficial relationship. Aerospace firms often have the rigorous requirements in weight.
Reuters (6/7, Hepher) reports Boeing is considering options “‘from mild to wild’ for the design of a proposed mid-market jet, a senior executive said, hinting at a breakthrough that industry sources say will create building blocks for future models.”
Boeing Co. (Chicago) “is set to deliver a refueling tanker that can gas up a jet in midair in complete darkness — the first of its kind,” according to CNN Money.
IndustryWeek (6/6) reports that MPI’s 2017 Internet of Things Study was released last week, and study authors “expected to see dramatic jumps in awareness of – and investment in – IoT initiatives among manufacturers around the world (we did).”
Boeing Co. “made the first delivery of its new 737 Max airplane to a customer,” the Pudget Sound Business Journal said.
WEST SPRINGFIELD, MA — NASA will need the help of its manufacturing contractors as the agency steps up exploration of Mars, an agency official said.
Reuters (5/23, Ajmera) reports Honeywell International “said on Tuesday it would decide by fall this year whether to separate its aerospace business,” which Reuters says is “a move hedge fund Third Point LLC wants the U.S. industrial conglomerate to pursue.”