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Decision to shed commercial aviation and rail division may not be enough.

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Michael Bruno, Jen DiMascio, Graham Warwick

Its decision to shed commercial aviation and rail divisions may not be enough, given the crowded business aviation market.
 
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Bombardier’s retreat shows why governments should seed technology development and let industry carry the risk of creating new products.
 
Graham Warwick

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
 
Guy Norris

Long-running blended wing body studies have so far come to nothing, but Airbus may have the technology to bring it to reality.
 
Irene Klotz

The company aims to produce up to 42 engines per year at the new plant.
 
Michael Bruno

Undoing Boeing’s stockpile of roughly 900 grounded, parked and partially built MAXs and recoordinating its supply chain could take years.
 
Tony Osborne

Stratospheric test flights to come as PHASA-35 high-altitude pseudo-satellite makes first flight in Australia.
 
Michael Bruno

While lawmakers always declare the president’s request dead on arrival on Capitol Hill, this year there was more than the usual dismissal by a rival branch of government.
 
Thierry Dubois

In a breakthrough use of computer vision, Airbus makes swift progress in its autonomous takeoff-and-landing project.
 
Steve Trimble

Twelve years after the requirement emerged, the U.S. military finally appears serious about acquiring a light-attack aircraft fleet.
 
Jen DiMascio

Russian Naval aircraft’s first flight; Space Force to integrate MILsatcom; F/A-18s tested in Finland; and Turkey’s armed drone.
 
 
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