AI & AutonomyArmy To Test And Evaluate Elroy Air’s Hybrid-Electric VTOL Under New ContractThe Army in August awarded a $46.1 million contract to Elroy Air to test and experiment with the company’s Chaparral autonomous hybrid-electric vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft for heavy…
MilitaryPDW Eyes Supplying Parts To Support U.S. Production Of One Million Drones AnnuallyPerformance Drone Works (PDW), which last week received a conditional loan commitment from the Defense Department to supercharge its capacity and capabilities for making key drone components, expects to support domestic…
MilitaryE-2D Block II Passes Critical Design ReviewThe Navy and Northrop Grumman this week revealed the Block II upgrade to the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye passed a Critical Design Review (CDR) in May, setting the way for flight tests within…
Global Aviation Round-Up from Aircraft Value IntelligenceWhy Aircraft Lease Rates Refuse to Come DownGlobal Aviation Round-Up from Aircraft Value Intelligence (AVN) Aircraft leasing used to be fairly predictable. Rising interest rates pushed up borrowing costs, lease rates climbed, and airlines paid more to…
Global Aviation Round-Up from Aircraft Value IntelligenceThe Weather Revolution: How New Technology Is Changing the Way Aircraft FlyGlobal Aviation Round-Up from Aircraft Value Intelligence (AVN) For all the advances aviation has made over the past century, one challenge has never gone away: weather. Storms, turbulence, icing, wind…
MilitaryUSAF Looks For Answers To Remedy Supply Bottlenecks For F-15EX and F-16 EnginesThe U.S. Air Force is searching for answers on how to remedy supply chain bottlenecks in building engines for the service’s F-15EX fighter by Boeing and F-16 by Lockheed Martin. The Air…
MilitaryDoD Makes Potential $820 Million Loan Commitment To Drone Company To Mass Produce ComponentsFlexing new authorities to dramatically increase its loan commitments, the Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Capital (OSC) has made a conditional loan commitment of up to $820 million to Performance Drone Works (PDW)…
Global Aviation Round-Up from Aircraft Value IntelligenceBoeing Edges Airbus at Farnborough as Ortberg's Turnaround Gains MomentumGlobal Aviation Round-Up from Aircraft Value Intelligence (AVN) The order books at the 2026 Farnborough International Airshow told an encouraging story for Boeing. When the four-day event wrapped up on…
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