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2018 Create the Future Design Contest: Aerospace & Defense Category Winner
DETECTING PLASTIC LANDMINES Hidden PFM-1 anti-personnel landmines are unexploded ordnance (UXO) devices that pose a difficult challenge to conventional landmine...
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GE Aviation Enhances Digital Thread with Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPEREINCE Platform
Creating a digital thread throughout the extremely complex process of developing aerostructures and engines can optimize an original equipment...
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Jetoptera, GE Aviation Collaborate On, Demonstrate Hover with Fluidic Propulsion
Engineers at Jetoptera in Edmonds, Washington, and GE Aviation in Evandale, Ohio, are collaborating on a 500 pound-force (lbf) class fluidic propulsion system...
Articles Manufacturing & Prototyping
Aluminum’s Rising Star
The impact aluminum is having on vehicle manufacturing, on sourcing — and on electric-vehicle engineering — was in full view on a recent visit to Constellium Automotive Structures' plant west of Detroit in Van Buren Township, MI.
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Packaging Honda’s all-new Insight
Honda’s Noriyuki Sato spoke through a translator with Editor-in-Chief Lindsay Brooke about what he calls “the Smart, Green Sedan” development. Read on to learn his, well, insight.
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Smart Factories Must Be Flexible, Connected and Secure
There’s no shortage of advanced technologies at the disposal of automakers in their efforts to manufacture passenger cars and trucks in a safer, more cost-effective and efficient...
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AV Testing is for DUMMIES
Rapid development of automated vehicles is driving ATD innovations, as Humanetics’ CEO Chris O’Connor explains here.
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Electrifying the Two-Wheeler
Alta Motors did not set out to create a zero-emission vehicle or invent a vital cog in the new landscape of electrified mobility. It wanted to build the best motorcycle it could regardless of powertrain, with products to satisfy the most serious motorcyclists.
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Engineering AVs to ‘Play Nice’ With Humans
The reality of automated driving is that it’s going to take many years, decades even, to largely supplant human driving.
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Moving the Goalposts of Emission Compliance
Placing definitive bets on any one compliance technology is a careful process of balancing several considerations, including cost, consumer acceptance, competitive considerations, and capital. Knowing the future location of the goal posts is the most important consideration.
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SAE Publishes First Global Standard on Shared Mobility
In September 2018, after just a 10-month process, SAE published J3163, the first globally-developed shared-mobility standard. It defines shared mobility as the shared use of a vehicle, motorcycle, scooter, bicycle or other travel mode, to provide users with short-term access to a transportation mode on an as-needed basis.
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Electrify the U.S. Postal Fleet!
What better way to promote the reliable, durable, quiet, clean, and low-cost operation of EVs than to have them serving us daily in our neighborhoods?
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Honeywell Wins $1.04 Billion U.S. Air Force Power Systems Contract
The U.S. Air Force awarded Phoenix-based Honeywell Aerospace with an exclusive $1,036,726,575 performance-based sustainment contract to provide end-to-end logistics support...
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NASA to Test Quiet Thump Supersonic Propulsion Technique, Measure Sound Levels and Community Response
NASA officials and engineers are prepping to fly the agency’s F/A-18 research aircraft over Galveston, Texas, using a “quiet thump”...
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GE Aviation and DM3D to Ramp up 3D-Printed Fan Blade Production for GE9X Engine
GE Aviation’s next-gen GE9X high-bypass turbofan engine is poised to be the most fuel-efficient jet engine ever produced by the company. Designed to power...
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2019 Hyundai Kona Electric Goes Content and Torque Heavy in a B-Class EV
What’s so remarkable about the Hyundai Kona Electric is how unremarkable it is. Essentially an electrified version of Hyundai’s B-class SUV, if the even...
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First Airbus A330-800 Airliner Goes Airborne in Maiden Flight, Enters Flight Test Phase
The first Airbus A330-800 commercial jet, flight test aircraft MSN1888, took off today from Toulouse-Blagnac Airport on its maiden flight over...
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Air Mobility Innovations Take Center Stage at Aerospace Systems and Technology Conference
Hundreds of aerospace executives, engineers, scientists, and academics are gathering in London this week for Aerospace Systems and Technology Conference...
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Tackling the Thermal Challenges of Battery EVs
The falling cost of natural gas and its increasing use for electricity generation has helped build the environmental appeal of battery electric vehicles. BEV advocates point to the 95%...
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WABCO Adds Autonomous Driving 'Building Blocks' to 2019 Portfolio
Active steering, high-deceleration emergency braking, and rear object detection with automatic braking underscore WABCO’s autonomous-tinged commercial vehicle products...
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Deutz Equips Telehandlers with Hybrid and Fully Electric Powertrains
Deutz, which has produced internal combustion engines for more than a century, is moving quickly to integrate electric power with its mainstay diesel engines. Only a year...
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J-10B Fighter Aircraft Debuts Chinese Thrust Vectoring Technology
A Chengdu Aircraft Industrial Group (Chengdu) twinjet J-10B multirole fighter equipped with a Shenyang Aircraft Corporation (Shenyang) WS-10G thrust vectoring turbofan...
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China to Require 7,400 New Aircraft Valued at $1T Through 2037
China will require more than 7,400 new passenger aircraft and freighters, with a total market value of $1,060 billion (U.S.) or $1.06 trillion, through 2037 to meet growing...
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Russian Helicopters Successfully Develops Helicopter Ditching System
Specialists at Kazan Helicopters have completed testing of an Ansat light helicopter equipped with a ditching system or emergency flotation system (EFS). The Ansat’s...
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DigitalGlobe Taps Satellite Images, Data Analytics, AI, Machine Learning to Map Continent for PSMA Australia
DigitalGlobe, a Maxar Technologies company (NYSE:MAXR), in Westminster, Colorado, has harnessed artificial intelligence (AI), machine...
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Advanced Simulation Techniques Drive Powertrain Design
Commercial vehicle designers are using a variety of simulation and validation tools as they attempt to find new ways to improve many aspects of vehicle design. Engineers are working...
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The CH-7: China’s Latest Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle
[This Friday post is part of our “Composite coverage: real lightweight stuff” series and a departure from SAE International’s traditional reporting approach. Let us know if you...
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New Boeing, Safran Joint Venture Dedicated to Developing Aircraft Auxiliary Power Units
Chicago-based, Boeing Company and Safran S.A. of Paris are forming a joint venture to design, build, and service aircraft secondary power systems,...
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AeroMobil Debuts Special Edition Sky Dragon Personal Transport Aircraft Targeted at Fast-Growing Market in China
Engineers at AeroMobil in Slovakia have developed a special edition of the company’s personal aerial vehicles targeted...
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Bosch Electrohydraulic Steering Advances Driver Assistance
Bosch’s Servotwin electrohydraulic steering system is an enabler for driver-assistance technology and a “building block” for future automation. It offers speed-based steering...
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Personal Air Transport Drives Need for Advanced VTOL Technologies, Standards
“The future of urban transportation requires close partnership between regulators, cities, authorities, and the private sector. AeroMobil is closely working with...
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First Orion European Space Module Delivered
The first European Space Module (ESM) just arrived in Titusville, Florida in preparation for its installation on the next-generation Orion multi-purpose crew vehicle and testing at NASA’s...
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Army, ASU Collaboration Produces Alloy with Superhero-Like Strength
Researchers from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and Arizona State University (ASU) have designed a super-strong alloy of copper and tantalum that can withstand extreme...
INSIDER Aerospace
Sandia Delivers First DOE Sounding Rocket Program Since 1990s
A new rocket program could help cut research and development time for new weapons systems from as many as 15 years to less than five. Sandia National Laboratories developed the...
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Electronic Warfare Creates Battlefield on a Different Wavelength
Soldiers on the ground are now capable of rapidly reacting to electronic and cyber data rather than waiting on their higher echelons. Soldiers assigned to Headquarters and...
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A-10C Pilots Will Get 3D-Audio to Increase Situational Awareness
The U.S. Air Force will equip between 150 and 200 Fairchild-Republic A-10C Thunderbolt II combat aircraft with 3D-audio systems developed by Terma A/S, a Lystrup,...
News Manufacturing & Prototyping
Stratasys LPM Technology Marries Additive Manufacturing, Short-Run Metal Parts Production
Stratasys (Nasdaq:SSYS) in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, is developing a new additive manufacturing (AM) platform for short-run metal applications based on...
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J-10B Fighter Demonstrates Thrust-Vectoring Supermaneuverability at Airshow China
For Chinese aerospace and defense firms, the biennial China International Aviation & Aerospace Exhibition in Zhuhai, China, is considered the only place...
Original Equipment Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Caterpillar Reveals Next-Gen Dozers, Excavators, Motor Graders
Caterpillar presented an onslaught of new machines—24 to be exact—at its Edwards Demonstration and Learning Center in Peoria, Ill., during its annual year-end press...
INSIDER Aerospace
Ducted Fans for Aircraft Propulsion
One alternative aircraft propulsion technology being explored is an array of electrically powered ducted fans distributed across the wing span or integrated into the wing. Researchers are studying the...
INSIDER Aerospace
Airbus, Georgia Tech Open Aircraft Design Center
Airbus and Georgia Tech opened the Airbus/Georgia Tech Center for Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)-enabled Overall Aircraft Design (OAD). The center will contribute to the development and demonstration of a concurrent overall aircraft design process with a team of 30 Georgia Tech researchers,...
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2020 Toyota Corolla Sedan Gets a New Platform and Adds Premium Content, Hybrid Version on the Way
Toyota has revealed the 12th-generation Toyota Corolla sedan, bringing with it similar updates announced with the arrival of the hatchback...
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Working Pilot Recruitment from All Angles
In conjunction with National STEM Day, United States Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson took to Twitter to promote science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) with a little help from Sesame...
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Weber Metals Unveils New 540-Meganewton Press for Aerospace Components
As aircraft become larger, lighter, and increasing more sophisticated, so do their components and parts. Follow that logic, and part manufacturing must also become more...
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U.S. DoD Orders 255 Lockheed Martin F-35 Military Combat Aircraft in $22.7B Deal
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., part of Lockheed Martin Corp., in Fort Worth, Texas, won a $22.7 billion contract from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to...
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GKN Aerospace, COMAC, and AVIC to Manufacture Advanced Aerostructures
GKN Aerospace, COMAC subsidiary Shanghai Aircraft Manufacturing Company (SAMC), and Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC International) are establishing a joint...
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Space Tango Takes Its Next Steps in Orbital Manufacturing
Lexington, Kentucky-based Space Tango is aiming to launch an autonomous robotic orbital platform by the mid-2020s. The platform, called ST-42, is designed for scalable manufacturing...
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Latest Enterprise Resource Planning Tool from Locatory Aimed at Revolutionizing Airline MRO
Aircraft maintenance, repair, and operational (MRO) services are full of strict deadlines, vital decisions, and intense documentation. With that...
News Manned Systems
Lockheed Martin Skunk Works Begins Manufacturing X-59 Supersonic Aircraft Parts
Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) Skunk Works in Palmdale, California, is manufacturing the first part for the X-59 Quiet Supersonic Technology aircraft, a milestone...
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NASA’s Next X-Plane Passes Major Review
NASA has officially committed to a three-year development timeline that will lead to the first flight of its X-59 Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST) aircraft.
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BorgWarner Integrated Drive Module in Testing Phase
BorgWarner’s new integrated Drive Module (iDM - left), currently in development, takes key propulsion-system elements for electrified vehicles and bundles those into a self-contained...
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Is Arm the Future for Airborne Platforms in Aerospace and Defense?
In recent years, Arm processors have made a quiet, understated entry into the aerospace and defense market. With a well-established reputation in commercial markets for...
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Cummins Unveils PowerDrive Hybrid-Electrics, Euro 7 Diesel Concept
As vehicle and equipment manufacturers continue to move away from pure diesel power, Cummins has unveiled a suite of plug-in hybrid-electric powertrain solutions under the...
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'Electrifying' New Range Rover Evoque
At first glance, it may take the shrewd eye of a Land Rover aficionado to notice the difference between the new Range Rover Evoque luxury crossover and its predecessor (which debuted 2010), but every body...
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Meritor Pursues Lightweighting Strategies for Drivelines
As with passenger vehicles, reducing the weight of systems and components in commercial vehicles is a key strategy to improve fuel efficiency. In the commercial-vehicle sector, the...
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Live Footage of NASA’s First Mars Landing in Six Years
NASA's Mars Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) lander is scheduled to touch down on the Red Planet at approximately 3 p.m....
Podcasts Green Design & Manufacturing
Garbage!
In this episode of Here’s an Idea™, we talk with researchers who are finding small — and sometimes even fun — ways to take out all the trash.
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SAE International Launches Aerospace Technology Symposium at Japan Aerospace 2018
SAE International, a global association committed to being the ultimate knowledge source for mobility engineering, is bringing together subject-matter experts...
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Boeing Completes Assembly of the First 777X
In a major production milestone called “final body join,” Boeing teams connected the major fuselage sections of the first 777X long-range, wide-body airliner in the company’s factory in...
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NASA InSight Landing a Success
NASA's Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) lander successfully touched down on Mars after an almost seven-month, 300-million-mile (458-million-kilometer)...
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Etihad and Eos Partner to Develop 3D-Printed Cabin Interiors
EOS GmbH and Etihad Airways will partner to significantly expand local capabilities for industrial additive manufacturing – also known as 3D printing – in aviation. The...
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United Technologies Completes Acquisition of Rockwell Collins, Sheds Non-Aero Business Units
This week, United Technologies Corporation (UTC) of Farmington, Connecticut announced the completion of its acquisition of Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based...
Articles Manned Systems
Electrification Takes (Some Of) the Load
The heavy-duty commercial vehicle community is taking a keener look at electrification. Several trends are driving this move, and not only emissions regulations. True, a number of large cities,...
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A New Additive Manufacturing Accelerator for the U.S. Navy in Guam
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Rewriting the Engineer’s Playbook: What OEMs Must Do to Spin the AI Flywheel
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