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Fixed-Wing Angle eVTOL
New design removes the need for mechanisms to perform active tilting of the wings or rotors, reducing system mass.

Briefs Manned Systems
Simulations Provide Understanding of Spacecraft Landing Dynamics
The simulations provide insight on the models needed to simulate a full-scale landing event.

Briefs Imaging
Development of a 94 GHz Radar System for Dedicated Bird Detection at Airports and Airfields
BIRDAR™ detected small birds at distances of 1.2 to 1.3 km and large birds.

Briefs Automotive
Meringue-Like Material Reduces Aircraft Noise
The low-density, graphene-based aerogel could make aircraft as quiet as a hairdryer.

Articles Materials
Developing Thermoplastic Composites for Use in Commercial Aircraft
Thermoplastic composite materials (TPC) are gaining momentum for use in commercial airplanes and other aerospace applications, including electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft.

Briefs Data Acquisition
Predicting In-Flight Air Density for More Accurate Landing
An algorithm runs onboard a vehicle, providing important real-time data to aid in steering the craft.

News Robotics, Automation & Control
CES 2021: Cadillac Shows off Multiple EV Concepts
Cadillac unveiled three electric vehicle (EV) concepts at CES 2021. They included the Halo Portfolio autonomous van, the VTOL (Vertical Take-Off and Landing) Concept autonomous aircraft...

Articles Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Designing Connectivity Solutions for an Electric Aircraft Future
Learn how to take on a “follow-the-wire” design approach.

News Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The Electric, Autonomous Revolution Lifts Off
Nearly a quarter-century ago, the Vertical Flight Society, a helicopter-industry group founded in 1943 as the American Helicopter Society, published a graphic dubbed “V/STOL Aircraft and...

Articles Aerospace
Mars 2020 – Getting to Mars
Perseverance will have the ability to land in more challenging terrain than Curiosity, making more rugged sites eligible as safe landing candidates.

Application Briefs Motion Control
Multiple Sensors Aid in Development of an Electrical Vertical Takeoff and Landing Aircraft
Beta Technologies is putting their Electrical Vertical Takeoff and Landing aircraft (eVTOL) prototype through the wringer.

Application Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
Modified Fittings Enhance Industrial Safety
NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida is home to one of the largest buildings in the world — the massive Vehicle Assembly Building — and also hosts a number of one-of-a-kind facilities. The...

Briefs Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Flow Disruption Devices for the Reduction of High Lift System Noise
This technique lowers airstream noise generated at the side edges of deployed flaps, elevons, or slats.

Application Briefs Photonics/Optics
A Vision-Based Lunar Navigator for Next-Generation Landers
Learn about the Draper Multi-Environment Navigator.

Briefs Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Aircraft Vertical Takeoff and Landing
NASA’s Langley Research Center developed an inexpensive, long-endurance, vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). It is capable of flying for 24 hours, landing in a 50 × 50...

Briefs AR/AI
Neural Lander Uses AI to Land Drones Smoothly
Landing multi-rotor drones smoothly is difficult. Complex turbulence is created by the airflow from each rotor bouncing off the ground during a descent. This turbulence is not well understood nor is it easy to compensate for, particularly for autonomous drones. That is why takeoff and landing are...
Briefs Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Origami-Inspired Material Softens Impact Forces
Landing is stressful on a rocket’s legs because they must handle the force from the impact with the landing pad. One way to combat this is to build legs out of materials that absorb some of...

News Aerospace
Honeywell Debuts Fly-By-Wire System for Urban Air Mobility, Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing Aircraft
Honeywell (NYSE:HON) engineers in Phoenix have packed the “brains” of an airliner’s flight controls into a “fly-by-wire”...

News Automotive
Lockheed Martin Validates Heatshield for the Mars 2020 Rover Mission
Lockheed Martin Corporation (Lockheed Martin) successfully completed development and testing for the heatshield that will protect NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)...

News Unmanned Systems
Is the Future of Aerial Autonomy up in the Air?
At January’s CES ’19, more than 170 exhibitors showed aerial drones of various shapes and sizes. Potential use cases for these devices appear to be limitless, but technical, legal and...

Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
Flexible, Spinning Heat Shield for Spacecraft
Heat shields are essentially used as the brakes to stop spacecraft from burning up and crashing on entry and reentry into a planet's atmosphere. Current spacecraft heat shield methods include...

Briefs Energy
Real-Time, Fuel-Optimal, Powered Descent Guidance Using Interpolated Time-of-Flight and Propellant Mass
Soft landing using rockets requires a trajectory to be planned for the lander from rocket ignition — typically several kilometers in altitude and moving at up to 200 m/s — to the point near the surface with near-zero velocity. The exact...
Application Briefs Defense
Deployable – Instrument Landing System
Thales Group
Cedex, France
+ 33(0)1 57 77 86 26
www.thalesgroup.com
The United States Air Force's (USAF) activities to establish air superiority and support ground combat units often...

Application Briefs Aerospace
Aircraft Parachute Recovery Systems
BRS Aerospace
South St. Paul, MN
651-457-7491
www.brsaerospace.com
BRS Aerospace has engaged Wichita State University's National Institute for Aviation Research (WSU-NIAR) to develop...

Briefs Sensors/Data Acquisition
Synthetic Aperture Radar for Helicopter Landing in Degraded Visual Environments
The development of sensors to assist helicopter landing in degraded visual environments (DVEs) is currently an important US Army requirement addressing the...

Briefs Aerospace
Vertical Take Off and Landing (VTOL) Aircraft with Vectored Thrust for Control and Continuously Variable Pitch Attitude in Hover
Most fixed-wing VTOL unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) take off vertically, then transition to horizontal flight. This is a new type of UAV that has unique capability. It can vary its hover position from “nose up”...
News Robotics, Automation & Control
Soyuz MS-10 Launch Abort Prompts Investigation into Booster Anomaly
NASA officials in Washington are pledging to conduct a thorough investigation into the cause of an anomaly with a rocket booster on the Soyuz MS-10 manned spacecraft,...

News Propulsion
Final Orion Capsule Parachute System Test Successful
A team of engineers from NASA and Dallas-based Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. successfully completed the eighth and final test of the Orion spacecraft Capsule Parachute Assembly System...

Articles Aerospace
Engine Air-Brakes
Airplanes, one of humanity's greatest inventions, evoke feelings of awe and amazement for most people, unless you live uncomfortably close to a major airport, in which case the feeling may become annoyance and irritation....

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