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Given supply chain bottlenecks around the world, we explore why Boeing is expanding its distribution business in Germany and what it means for its wider operation.
 
With its Claire technology agenda, MTU Aero Engines elaborates potential solutions to vastly reduce the climate impact and fuel consumption of aircraft engines.
 
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Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun seemed categoric at the company’s Nov. 2 investor conference: He said Boeing will not launch a new airplane until the promised fuel burn is at least 20% better than any existing alternative.
 
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Tony Osborne

The approvals help pave the way for the first planned orbital launch from the UK mainland for Virgin Orbit’s “Start Me Up” mission using its air-launched LauncherOne space vehicle that will be carried by its modified Boeing 747. 
 
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Allied meeting for Ukraine military aid focuses on air, missile defenses, and light attack aircraft seen helping solve Ukraine’s drone problem. Take a look at these and more in our daily roundup of aerospace & defense news.
 
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Adrian Schofield

There are still many questions regarding when and how the mainland China market will begin to reopen.
 
Steve Trimble

How the Pentagon’s rush to field counters to Chinese and Russian hypersonic weapons has been frustrated by compressed testing schedules.
 
 
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Building off the Consolidation in the European A&D Market discussion, this webinar will focus on the engine production shortage and how forecasted deliveries will be adjusted moving forward – touching on behind-schedule deliveries, raw material shortages, and more.

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