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Kepler Communications Will Flight Test a Transmission Optimizing “Smart Radiator Device” on Its Next Satellite Mission
Kepler Communications, Inc.’s (Kepler’s) TARS six-unit cubesat – the company’s third satellite scheduled for...
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Volocopter’s All-Electric UAM Vehicle Benefits from Honeywell’s Advanced Navigation and Flight Tech
Honeywell International Inc. will lend its expertise in autonomous sensing and flight technologies to the navigation and automatic...
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Stratolaunch All-Composite Aircraft Achieves First Flight
Stratolaunch Systems Corp., founded by Paul G. Allen, in Seattle, Washington, has completed the first flight of the Stratolaunch, the world’s largest all-composite aircraft, with a...
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Next-Generation Honeywell Turboshaft Engine Could Power Sikorsky-Boeing’s Future Vertical Lift Family
The latest version of Honeywell Aerospace’s seven-stage axial compressor T55 turboshaft engine is nearing the final phase of...
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AVIC Subsidiary Continental Aerospace Will Power the Upcoming Diamond DA50, Expands into Electric Propulsion
Continental Aerospace Technologies (Continental) of Mobile Alabama – a subsidiary of Beijing-based Aviation Industry Corporation...
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Chevrolet Finally Confirms Mid-Engine Corvette, Marks July Reveal
Having pondered since the late 1950s the concept of a mid-engine layout for its classic Corvette sportscar—and in the subsequent decades rumored to repeatedly revisit the...
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Approved Vendor List Supplier Reduction: Everyone Is Doing It
Every quality-run organization has a supplier vetting process. The one common denominator always heard in supplier audits is: "We simply must reduce our list of suppliers."
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Bridgestone Joins JAXA and Toyota on International Space Exploration Mission
Bridgestone Corp. in Tokyo and Nashville, Tennessee, is joining Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Toyota Motor Corp. in an international space...
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Goodfellow Corporation Offers Graphene Variant Produced Through a New “Metal-Free” Methane Process
Coraopolis, Pennsylvania-based Goodfellow Corporation (Goodfellow) is taking graphene and going “green,” offering an ultra-pure,...
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Bye Aerospace’s Sun Flyer Is Now the “EFlyer”
In an effort to more accurately represent the aircraft – which will no longer feature wing-mounted solar panels as a standard option – Denver-based Bye Aerospace is renaming its...
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General Atomics Moves Toward Global RPA Flight Certification for MQ-9B SkyGuardian
A General Atomics Aeronautical System, Inc. (GA-ASI) MQ-9B SkyGuardian remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) was controlled – from takeoff to landing – by an...
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WCX 2019: IAMTS Association Will Establish Standardization and Testing for Connected Vehicles
In pursuit of developing and growing an international portfolio of advanced mobility testbeds that meet the highest quality implementation and...
News Unmanned Systems
WCX 2019: The AV “Money Race” Is On
Automated-and-connected vehicles may be on a longer adoption path than the hype around them suggests, but AVs and their related technologies will eventually become a multi-trillion-dollar market,...
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WCX 2019: Regulators Grapple with Autonomous Challenges
The long reach of autonomous vehicles clearly extends to the regulatory environment, which will undergo changes that are as significant as those seen in the discipline of engineering...
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WCX 2019: Validation Can’t Replace Roadway Tests
Simulations and validations are necessary elements in the development of driverless cars, but they aren’t going to fully replace real world testing. Virtual testing will help engineers...
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WCX 2019: Mobileye’s Quest for Super-Human Perception
Human drivers typically approach driving by following traffic rules and exercising a sense of caution in certain driving situations and road conditions. So, it makes sense that...
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2019 HEICE Symposium Kicks off Week of Valuable Engineering Insights
The 2019 SAE High Efficiency Internal Combustion Engine (HEICE) Symposium kicked off a week’s worth of SAE World Congress events in Detroit on Sunday, April 7. Now in...
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UTC’s Project 804 Hybrid-Electric Demonstrator May Increase Regional Jet Efficiency by 30 Percent
United Technologies Corporation (UTC) is collaborating with its subsidiaries Pratt & Whitney and Collins Aerospace to develop a...
News AR/AI
WCX 2019: Start Your Self-Driving Racecars
The world’s first electric driverless racecars are about to hit the accelerator pedal. “In order to create this new type of motorsport, we had to design and build vehicles—because they didn’t...
News RF & Microwave Electronics
WCX 2019: Cybersecurity Hackers Help Vet Vehicle Systems
They’re non-traditionalists who wear white hats. They are the now well-known “whitehat” researchers who help identify and catch cybersecurity vulnerabilities. While the general...
News RF & Microwave Electronics
“The Grid” Promises to Be the Most Advanced Electric Propulsion Laboratory in the Aerospace Industry
Collins Aerospace, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation (UTC), has laid out its plans for what is calling “The Grid” –...
News Green Design & Manufacturing
Engineers Balance Today’s Programs with Tomorrow’s Mobility Future
Engineers are seeing the automotive industry pivot to advanced mobility. It’s a changing landscape with new lifeblood for the internal combustion engine and a...
News Manned Systems
Wichita State’s National Center for Advanced Materials Performance Partners with SAE International to Standardize Lightweight Aerospace Materials
The National Center for Advanced Materials Performance (NCAMP) of Wichita State University...
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Sensuron Enables Real-Time Structural Health Monitoring Onboard NASA’s X-56 UAV
In contrast to the stiff, rigid wings found on most commercial aircraft, flexible wing technology is considered essential to next generation, fuel efficient...
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SAE International, Ford, General Motors, and Toyota Form Automated Vehicle Safety Consortium
SAE International is partnering with Ford, General Motors (GM), and Toyota to form the Automated Vehicle Safety Consortium™ (AVSC), which will...
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Boeing Flies First 737 MAX 7 with Updated MCAS Software
Chicago-based Boeing recently completed a “demo flight” of a 737 MAX 7 narrow-body airliner equipped with updated Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) software.
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New-Mobility Visionary Burns: Automated Driving ‘Getting Close’
Asserting that the potential for outsized economic and social gains connected with automated driving are huge, Lawrence D. Burns, delivering a keynote address at this...
News RF & Microwave Electronics
Wind River, Collins Aerospace Explore the Future of AI/ML in Avionics
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) will continue to bring about significant changes in aircraft cockpits and help move commercial, military, and general...
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Airbus’ Connected Cabin Concept Is Materializing with First Round of Partnerships
Airbus SE is shifting its Connected Experience cabin concept into the first stages of reality with cooperative buy-in from gategroup Holding AG, Stelia...
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