Firth Rixson, a maker of jet engine components. Aerospace has been a highly profitable business for Alcoa and is looking to grow it by 8%-9% this year. A $1 billion contract to supply aluminum sheet to Boeing (BA) finalized earlier this month will …

Following the disposals, Airbus would still have a few gems left in its defense portfolio: a civil/military helicopter manufacturing business, a stake in the consortium building the Eurofighter Typhoon combat jet and one of the world's largest aerial …

Embraer is the world's third largest commercial aircraft manufacturer after The Boeing Co. (BA – Analyst Report) and Airbus. The company designs, manufactures and sells aircraft and systems under both commercial as well as executive aviation, and …

Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes SA (GOL:US), Brazil's biggest airline, is looking at buying Embraer SA (EMBR3)'s upgraded regional jets to add to its current all-Boeing Co. (BA:US) fleet. The carrier is looking at E2 models that would seat 130 to 140 …

Boeing also is closing the Long Beach, Calif., plant that makes C-17 military cargo jets next year. Combined with the end of F/A-18 and F-15 production, the moves will cut 50% of the revenue from the existing military aircraft unit. The business also …

Josef Resch, who runs Wifka,tells the German business magazine Capital that the firm has already been paid more than $50,000 in fees and holds a $650,000 retainer that it can claim if it succeeds in landing a whistleblower. Capitalcalls the bounty the …

China's state-run Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (Comac) is developing a single-aisle airplane named Comac C919, and global regional airplane makers such as Bombardier and Embraer are building larger jets to enter the market segments, …

It wasn't as if the plane went into a free fall and the pilots were unaware of it. The Boeing report clearly establishes that the co-pilot fiddled with the controls of the aircraft after which the plane dropped 5,000 feet,” a senior DGCA official said …

No matter that the album was released in January 1958, 10 months before commercial jet travel began in earnest, on October 26, with the inaugural ticketed flight of a Boeing 707 jetliner, operated by Pan Am, from New York to Paris. No matter that the …