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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...
News Manufacturing & Prototyping
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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Scalable Agile Beam Radar Migrates to Multiple Platforms
Northrop Grumman Corporation has successfully integrated the advanced AN/APG-83 SABR system onto multiple configurations of F-16 aircraft and is now taking the next step in expanding...
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Boeing Introduces New Unmanned System for Global Defense Customers
Boeing has introduced its newest unmanned platform, the Boeing Airpower Teaming System. Designed for global defense customers by Boeing Australia, it is the company’s...
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MAPS-Enabled Countermeasures Defeat Threats in U.S. Army Field Tests
In a series of live-fire tests, systems equipped with MAPS-enabled countermeasures defeated 15 out of 15 anti-tank guided missiles by jamming their signals, causing them...
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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 Connectivity
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...
News Unmanned Systems
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...
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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 Mechanical & Fluid Systems
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 Automotive
“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 Energy
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...
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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...
News Automotive
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.
News Unmanned Systems
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 Unmanned Systems
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...
News Automotive
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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