aerospace industry

I've been thinking quite a lot about European manufacturers lately and an intriguing what-if scenario came to mind about an alternative grouping of European manufacturers - sort of following on from this thread...

Convair: Engineering the Military and Civil Aviation Future

https://www.wired.com/story/europe-prepares-for-the-space-race-with-a-new-legal-and-financial-framework/

I don't know where else to ask this, and I've arrived here via a circuitous route so please bear with me. I've recently gone down the rabbit hole of the Australian car industry of the 60s and apart from the basic Australian manufactured models we imported Zephyrs and Crestas from the UK and...

Just the sort of topic im sure discussed in bars across the western world ... ref. Flight International, 4 November 2003

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/14/boeing-qatar-trump-plane-deal.html

View: https://x.com/CalumDouglas1/status/1921326549871034509 "Five career tips for mechanical engineers: 1) If it sounds too good to be true, 98% of the time, it is, thousands of clever people spent their lives researching how things are now, incrementally. Success is almost entirely by small...

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/that-big-boeing-plane-order-british-airways-operator-iag-has-ordered-32-of-its-jets-739614b9

… https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-08/trump-announces-trade-framework-with-uk-lowering-barriers

https://cdapress.com/news/2019/feb/26/darold-cummings-aircraft-designer-has-eye-on-5/ https://www.csulb.edu/no-barriers/article/through-his-support-csulb-alumnus-gives-flight-to-students-goals http://forzaero.net/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/modernizing-defense-acquisitions-and-spurring-innovation-in-the-defense-industrial-base/

I have been reconsidering about the potential of Avro Arrow and its related Canadian made weapon systems After looking at its early cold war era background history for multiple times, I have come to this conclusion below: To be honest, it was really difficult to find an effective combat role...

Bird strikes--looking at me....Nothing but twin-jets....do I see Let me know how well it floats when Sully puts it in the Volga. bloody twin jets...

Beloved singer and unparalleled French aerospace historian/writer died yesterday, the 2nd of March 2025, at 80 after a long battle with cancer: For those that are unfamiliar with his top selling history of Soviet and German aircraft, might you find in the below titles a glimpse of what was his...

https://spacenews.com/virgin-galactic-and-redwire-partner-on-suborbital-research-capabilities/

embedded links: Hart-Smith paper on Boeing Outsourcing 2003 reaction to Hart-Smith Paper

EMBRAER reaches 75 deliveries in the last quarter of 2024, totaling 206 new aircraft in 2024 São Paulo (SP), January 7, 2025 – EMBRAER, a global leader in the aerospace industry, delivered 75 aircraft in 4Q24 – or 27% above the previous quarter (3Q24), when 59 aircraft were delivered, and equal...

Vereinigte Flugtechnische Werke, The company was formed by the 1964 merger of two German aerospace firms, Focke-Wulf and Weser Flugzeugbau GmbH (Weserflug). The formation of VFW was a natural outcome, as the two companies had been collaborating, along with Hamburger Flugzeugbau (HFB), in the...

Safran Aircraft Engines inaugurates a new assembly line at its Querétaro plant, supporting the production of the CFM LEAP engine and generating 150 new jobs. This step reinforces its commitment to Mexico and its leadership in the aerospace industry. Safran Aircraft Engines, a global leader in...

IOW - earlier & greater cooperation with SAAB and the British companies, while the cooperation between the later and the French and other European NATO is much smaller? Draken was powered by the British engine, Viggen was supposed to be powered by the Medway, while the Gripen should've been just...