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Flying on Vegetation
Fuel is expensive for airlines. According to sources interviewed for this article, fuel accounts for 30 to 50% of operating costs, depending on the size of the aircraft. And fuel prices remain volatile.
Articles Aerospace
Avionics Heat Up, in a Good Way
The common feature shared by recent aviation platforms is the high level of systems integration, and the way in which information is displayed or made accessible, allowing previously unimaginable levels of...
Articles Defense
Airborne Antenna Considerations for C-Band Telemetry Systems
It is fairly well known within the aerospace community that telemetry is moving from the traditional L-band and S-band frequency ranges up to C-band. It is widely understood that the...
Application Briefs Defense
Unmanned Demonstrator Flight Control Systems
North Atlantic Industries Bohemia, NY 631-567-1100 www.naii.com North Atlantic Industries (NAI) has been chosen by Lockheed Martin Skunk Works® to provide navigation system solutions for the Aerial...
Application Briefs Defense
Software-Designed System Improves Wireless Test Speed and Coverage
As wireless standards become more complex, the number of operational modes for these devices increases exponentially. As progression continues to the latest WiFi standard, new...
Application Briefs Defense
SRW Radio System
Thales Defense & Security Clarksburg, MD 240-864-7000 www.thalescomminc.com Thales Defense & Security, Inc. has been awarded an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the U.S. Army for its Soldier...
Application Briefs Imaging
Fully Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles
Lockheed Martin Bethesda, MD 866-562-2363 www.lockheedmartin.com/unmanned Lockheed Martin, in collaboration with the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC),...
Application Briefs Aerospace
Autonomous Black Hawk Helicopter
Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation Stratford, CT 1-800-946-4337 www.sikorsky.com/ Sikorsky Aircraft, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp., is developing its first product to feature Matrix™ Technology by...
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The Next Wave of Crash Simulation
Although most vehicle crash tests are typically done at 35-40 mph (56-64 km/h), the speed at which crash simulations are run continues to accelerate. As computing speed continually improves, engineers are...
Technology Report Transportation
Climate Control Engineers Face New CAFE Test
Automotive climate control engineers are working to wring increased efficiency not only from the refrigeration system, but from every peripheral too. Yes, there are CAFE (corporate average fuel...
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Multi-Processor Simulation
dSPACE’s SCALEXIO, the company’s latest hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) technology, is now more powerful with its new extension for a multi-processor (MP) simulation platform. With the MP extension, users can connect...
Briefs Defense
Developing and Validating Statistical Cyber Defenses
Enterprise business processes are more connected than ever before, driven by the ability to share the right information with the right partners at the right time. While this...
Briefs Test & Measurement
Next-Generation Spectrometers for Rapid Analysis of Complex Mixtures
Molecules have internal motions that are characteristic of their structure and identity. These motions can be studied by spectroscopy in different regions of the...
Briefs Aerospace
Wireless Vital Signs Monitor for Trauma Patients
A miniature, portable wireless vital signs monitor (MWVSM), called Mini-medic™, could aid in the triage and diagnosis of trauma patients with and without traumatic brain injury (TBI). The MWVSM consists of two components, both of which are the approximate size and weight of a cellphone: one is a...
Briefs Physical Sciences
Analysis of an In-Ear Dosimeter for a Single Hearing Protection Device
US national and many international hearing conservation programs (HCPs) have adopted a noise exposure criterion of 85 dBA for a time-weighted average of 8 hours, with a 3 dB...
News Transportation
Outlook for Autonomous Driving Includes Cloud
Fully autonomous vehicles are still a long ways from volume production, but R&D in this field is ramping up and expanding in many directions. A growing number of companies are focusing on...
News Transportation
Math to Road Cycle Is Similar Yet Diverse for Trains, Trucks, and Tractors
Product engineering projects are always circular. As new versions evolve, data that comes back to design teams is incorporated into the next iteration. Panelists at...
News Materials
QT-Steels Make an Impact
Modern quenched and tempered (QT) steels bring a lot to the off-highway industry, particularly for dump trucks. For one, when combined with the proper design concept, their use contributes to the lightweighting of...
News Materials
Mercedes Shows Its Metal and Chooses Steel over Aluminum
In many areas of vehicle construction and components it has become increasingly common for automakers to shift away from steel to embrace aluminum in pursuit of reduced weight. But...
Q&A Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Accelerating Racecar Innovation
Prior to this year’s Indianapolis 500, the 48th annual BorgWarner Louis Schwitzer Award was awarded for innovation and engineering excellence in race car design. Claiming the award, for the second time, was...
News RF & Microwave Electronics
Enerdel Goes Off-Road with Its Hard-Carbon Lithium-Ion Battery Technology
At Smarter Shows' recent Battery Show in Novi, MI, EnerDel Inc. showcased two applications for its battery technologies.
Product Briefs Electronics & Computers
Ethernet Audio-Video Bridging
Excelfore enables simplified audio-video interconnectivity using Ethernet audio-video bridging (AVB), which leads to lower cost and system weight for infotainment systems in vehicles. Connectivity is simplified by...
Product Briefs Electronics & Computers
120dB Lens for HDR Sensors
Sunex NoGhost 120-dB lenses are the first and only lenses designed, optimized, and tested for use in cameras using high dynamic range (HDR) image sensors, claims the company. With the increased dynamic range for HDR...
News Electronics & Computers
Flexible Circuit Technology
Q-Prime from Multek Flexible Circuits Inc. is a flexible circuit technology developed specifically for applications where efficient heat dispersion is required and is especially useful for LED applications....
Product Briefs RF & Microwave Electronics
Polymer-Cathode Tantalum Capacitors
With the recent focus on the efficiency of vehicle electronics, automotive manufacturers are looking for tantalum capacitors with lower equivalent series resistance (ESR). Polymer-cathode tantalum capacitors...
News Transportation
Cooled EGR Shows Benefits for Gasoline Engines
“EGR (exhaust gas recirculation) systems now in use on diesel engines were used to meet emissions regulations. In gasoline engines, we think they are an ideal way to meet stricter fuel...
News Transportation
Hitachi Updates Dump Trucks with More Comfort and Serviceability Features
Many legacy features are continued on Hitachi Construction Machinery's most recent version of its EH1100 rigid dump truck, the EH1100-5, such as the long-life and...
Technology Report Power
Mercedes-AMG’s SLS Departure Opens Door to New GT
How can Mercedes-AMG top its gull-winged SLS that has just eased out of production? It doesn’t try. Instead, the SLS "replacement" is less costly, less radical, more practical, but still...
Technology Report Automotive
In Search of the Lightweight, Multi-Material Car
Automotive researchers and engineers are looking for ways to knock the fat off nearly every part of a vehicle in their efforts to achieve higher fuel economy.
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