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HondaJet Goes on Show
An important element in its recent world tour was the participation of the new HondaJet at the European Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition (EBACE), held at Geneva, which was its first European appearance.
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New Pulse Lines for LEAP Engine Production
During the recent Paris Air Show, French engine manufacturer Snecma announced significant investment in a new assembly facility to meet the unprecedented level of customer demand for the new LEAP...
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Additive Manufacturing Startup Added to Ford’s Research Roster
Ford is jumping on the additive manufacturing bandwagon, teaming up with a startup that claims its 3D manufacturing system makes parts 25 to 100 times faster than conventional...
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Eicher Polaris Creates Personal-Utility-Vehicle Segment in India
Eicher Polaris Pvt. Ltd. recently launched what it claims is India’s first personal utility vehicle (PUV), the Multix, creating a new category in the automotive segment....
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Deutz-Fahr Tractor Debuts Industry-First Hella LED Light Package
Deutz-Fahr collaborated with Hella to develop an industry-first LED light package for its line of 7 Series tractors. The Deutz-Fahr 7250 Warrior is equipped with 14 new Hella...
INSIDER Defense
Scientists Print Radio Frequency Antenna with Graphene Ink
Scientists have taken a significant step in moving graphene – the incredibly strong and conductive single-atom-thick sheet of carbon – from lab bench novelty to commercially viable...
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Smart-Mortar Could Help Soldiers Hit Targets
The Army hopes its new 120mm Guided Enhanced Fragmentation Mortar (GEFM) will improve soldiers' ability to put artillery on target. The GEFM is a high- accuracy, GPS-guided mortar concept currently...
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Compact UV Lasers Could Spot Dangerous Substances from a Distance
For soldiers in the field, the ability to identify an object or substance based on how it responds to light could mean the difference between life and death. They could, for...
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Freudenberg-NOK Develops Lightweight, Fireproof Materials for Engine Nacelles
Freudenberg-NOK Sealing Technologies is currently developing two new materials that reportedly will help aircraft manufacturers save weight and production costs...
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JLR Reveals Some R&D Secrets
Watching the alpha and beta waves of one’s brain undulating across a screen while gripping a steering wheel, is one of the more bizarre experiences of automotive R&D. But that is what JLR (Jaguar Land...
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Ford Expands ‘Split-View’ Camera Applications in SUVs, Trucks
Ford’s latest vehicle camera technology can help drivers see around corners. The optional “split-view” camera feature enables a view of traffic and obstacles that enter...
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Faster, Lighter: Lotus Reveals Its Quickest Road Car Yet
With an all-new lightweight composite bodyshell, supercharged 336-kW (450-hp) V6 engine, and an open cockpit without windshield or doors, Lotus’s stark new no-nonsense 3-Eleven is...
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Mounting Structure Stiffness Critical for Isolation Performance on Off-Highway Machines
Off-highway machine mounting systems, especially the cab mounting system, significantly affect the operator comfort in the cab by providing enough...
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Mitsubishi Puts NVH in 2016 Outlander's Crosshairs
Two years after the third-generation Mitsubishi Outlander arrived in the U.S. market, the crossover utility vehicle was revised for the 2016 MY with new signature front-end styling and...
INSIDER Aerospace
NASA Tests Aircraft Wing Coatings that Slough Bug Guts
Bug guts create drag, and drag increases fuel consumption. But aircraft of the future could be made more fuel-efficient with non-stick coatings NASA recently tested on Boeing’s...
INSIDER Aerospace
Fuel Cell Carts Deliver Power to Airplane Galleys
Airplane galleys consume a huge amount of power. Additional power units may soon come to the rescue: housed inside trolley carts in the galleys, these units deliver both supplemental power and...
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New SAE Book Examines Effects of Inflight Atmospheric Icing
SAE International has announced publication of the new book, Ice Accretion and Icing Technology by Robert J. Flemming. With proposed changes in the regulations for operation in icing conditions, universities and industry have been working hard to respond to the challenge. This is...
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Dassault Systèmes on Everyone’s Side with 3D Visualization for Cabin Design
Dassault Systèmes announced just prior to Paris Air Show the launch of “Passenger Experience,” what it describes as a new aerospace and defense industry...
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Hyundai Launches All-New Crawler Excavator
Hyundai's new HX520 L is powered by a 331-kW (445-hp) Scania D13 engine, which is compliant with the Stage IV emissions standards. Hyundai has chosen a combined EGR and SCR technology solution that it says results in a reduction of fuel consumption of 3 to 6% depending on work cycles.
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John Deere Loads Updates into E-Series Articulated Dump Trucks
All three models of John Deere's new E-Series articulated dump trucks (ADT) were designed and built in Dubuque and Davenport, IA. John Deere’s new Tier 4 Final E-Series (370E,...
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Accenture Demos Wearable Technology for Improving Manufacturing Processes
There was plenty of chatter at Paris Air Show about the need to increase efficiencies throughout the life of an aircraft, from its design and build all the way to it...
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Airbus Helicopters Looks to the Future in Heavy-Lift Rotorcraft with the X6 Concept
Airbus Helicopter's announcement at the Paris Air Show about the beginning of the concept phase for a new helicopter, currently called the X6, didn't quite...
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Sierra Nevada Breathes Life into D328, Determined to Make It Fly Again, and Evolve
Some 10 years since being out of production (some might say even nearly 15 years if one considers the demise of the plane’s originator), the Dornier 328,...
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Cat Designs Its 336F L XE Hybrid Excavator with Building-Block Technologies
Caterpillar says its 336F L XE Hybrid delivers an estimated fuel savings of up to 20% compared with its standard 336 counterpart with no compromise in performance...
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Flight Propulsion Goes Electric
Somehow, the sight of an airplane wing perching incongruously atop a big-rig truck tractor that’s rumbling across a dry lake bed at dawn might not seem particularly significant to the future of aviation....
News Automotive
Volvo Penta Debuts Two New Off-Highway Engines
Volvo Penta offered up at Intermat the latest additions to its engine lineup: new 5- and 8-L off-highway diesel engines.
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Propulsion Performance Model for Efficient Supersonic Aircraft
For the design process of the class of aircraft known as an efficient supersonic air vehicle (ESAV), particular attention must be paid to the propulsion system design as a whole...
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Controlling Engines with Virtual Sensors
The most efficient engines today, gasoline or diesel, are complex machines, with variable valve timing and lift, direct injection, turbocharging, and various flavors of exhaust gas recirculation...
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Stability Control Boosts Motorcycle Safety
As happened in cars, electronic safety technology for motorcycles is tracing a course starting with anti-lock brakes, continuing through traction control, and arriving eventually at full electronic stability control.
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A New Additive Manufacturing Accelerator for the U.S. Navy in Guam
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2026 Toyota RAV4 Review: All Hybrid, All the Time
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F-22 Pilot Controls Drone With Tablet
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A New Approach to Manufacturing Machine Connectivity for the Air Force
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Optimizing Production Processes with the Virtual Twin
