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Test Socket Thermal Solutions
Aries Electronics (Bristol, PA) recently introduced a new thermal profiling solution for its test and burn-in socket line of products. Unlike standard heat-sink and fan options, this solution incorporates advanced...
Products Manufacturing & Prototyping
Vector Network Analyzers
Anritsu Company (Morgan Hill, CA) has expanded its Shock-Line™ family of vector network analyzers (VNAs) with the introduction of the Performance ShockLine MS46500B series. The MS46500B series is comprised of the...
Products Manufacturing & Prototyping
26-Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch
Diamond Systems Corporation (Mountain View, CA) recently unveiled the Epsilon-24000 family of gigabit Ethernet switches. These rugged, managed Layer 2+ Ethernet switch modules offer up to 24 10/100/1000 Mbps...
Products Defense
Dual A/D Converter FMC
VadaTech (Henderson, NV) has released a new analog-to-digital converter (ADC) for RADAR, SIGINT, wireless infrastructure, RF Sampling SDR, and other applications. The FMC226 is a dual ADC, 12-bit at 4.0 GSPS module. The...
Products Manufacturing & Prototyping
Hybrid Benchtop Chamber
TotalTemp Technologies (San Diego, CA) has introduced the HBC-SD49 Hybrid Benchtop Chamber that combines thermal conduction and convection in one unit, providing many of the best features of temperature chambers and...
Products Sensors/Data Acquisition
In-Flight Ice Sensor
New Avionics Corp (Ft Lauderdale, FL) has introduced its next- generation new Ice*Meister™ Model 9732-PLASTIC ice detecting sensor for aircraft. Consisting of a probe, housing, circuit board, and lightweight blue cable,...
Application Briefs Defense
Real-Time Operating System
Wind River Alameda, CA 800-545-9463 www.windriver.com Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), the largest government-owned defense and aerospace company in Israel, equipped its semi-autonomous airplane towing vehicle,...
Application Briefs Defense
Autonomous Aerial Refueling
Northrop Grumman Corp. Falls Church, VA 703-280-2900 www.northropgrumman.com Earlier this year, Northrop Grumman Corporation and the U.S. Navy successfully demonstrated fully autonomous aerial refueling (AAR) with...
Application Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
Fusible-Core Polymer
Egmond Plastic Alkmaar, The Netherlands +31-72-5614644 www.egmondplastic.nl Fuel housings for aerospace applications have very complex inner geometries which are not moldable using conventional injection technology....
Application Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
Mobile Networking for Aircraft
Persistent Systems, LLC New York, NY 212-561-5895 www.persistentsystems.com The Wave Relay® 5010 Integration Unit, a Mobile Ad Hock Networking (MANET) product from Persistent Systems, LLC, was recently tested by...
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First Airbus A350-1000 Wing Goes into Production in North Wales
Airbus has begun the assembly process on the wings for the first Airbus A350-1000 in Broughton, North Wales. The A350-1000 wing has the same span of the A350-900 that is...
News Propulsion
Lifting 3D Printing to New Heights
Whether it’s through 3D printing jet engine fuel nozzles by the thousands or validating metal rocket injectors for space flight, aerospace has consistently proven itself to be on the cutting edge of the...
Products Defense
Two-Stroke Engines
Ewatt AeroSpace Company (Wuhan, China) has developed a new series of lightweight, powerful and reliable two-stroke engines for both UAV and light-manned aircraft. The engines are being designed and developed by aircraft...
Products Manufacturing & Prototyping
Brushless DC Motors
BEI Kimco Magnetics (Vista, CA) has developed new frameless brushless DC motors in multiple designs for a variety of applications including robots and remotely piloted military vehicles. These new motors provide operational...
Products Defense
Adaptive IF Relay XMC
Pentek, Inc., (Upper Saddle River, NJ) has introduced the newest member of its Cobalt® line of XMCs (Switched Mezzanine Cards). The Model 71624 dual channel, 34 signal, adaptive IF (Intermediate Frequency) relay XMC with...
Products Defense
Avionics Interface Computer
Data Device Corporation (Bohemia, NY) has introduced the Avionics Interface Computer (AIC), providing a scalable, programmable, and portable platform to develop and test MIL-STD-1553 and ARINC 429 system applications...
Products Defense
ARINC 429 XMC Interface
GE Intelligent Platforms (Huntsville, AL) recently announced the RARXMC ARINC 429 High Density XMC Interface for deployment on many single board computers. Designed for embedded, laboratory and simulator applications,...
Products Defense
Compute Stick with Windows
Mouser Electronics, Inc. (Mansfield, TX) is now shipping the Intel® Compute Stick with Windows 8.1, a new generation of computer from Intel Corp. The Compute Stick is a revolutionary new device that enables any...
Products Defense
30 GHz and 35 GHz Microstrip Isolators
TRAK Microwave (Tampa, FL) has announced two new Microstrip Isolators covering popular mm-wave frequency bands. Models T001110 (29.6-30.6 GHz) and T001111 (34.5-35.5GHz) integrate ferrite circulator/...
Technology Update Materials
High-Strength Aluminum Powder Developed for Additive Manufacturing in Aerospace, Automotive
Metal laser melting has made a successful leap from rapid prototyping to an approved manufacturing technology, and the method is increasingly becoming...
Articles Manufacturing & Prototyping
Big Data, Aircraft, and a Better Future
The hype phrase today is “Big Data.” It is a phrase Mark Bünger, Research Director for Lux Research, believes can have a number of definitions depending on who is doing the defining. Bünger was...
News Manufacturing & Prototyping
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...
Technology Update Software
Altair Optimizes 3D-Printed Structures for Complex, Lightweight Designs
Altair expects to better support the use of additive manufacturing (AM), or 3D printing, by releasing new OptiStruct solver capabilities for topology optimization. The...
Briefs Aerospace
Designing and Fabricating a Multiple-Decade Battery
There is a great need for energy sources that can power unattended sensors for more than a decade. Unattended sensors can be located in harsh and remote locations that are often dangerous for...
Briefs Manufacturing & Prototyping
Silicon Microsphere Fabrication
The efficiency and methodology of coupling light into microcavities has improved exponentially in the last decade. One such advancement is coupling light onto silicon microspheres. The material, size, and shape...
Briefs Defense
Modular Exhaust Design and Manufacturing Techniques for Build-to-Order Muffler Systems
Managing the acoustic signature of military vehicles can play a critical role in the safety of soldiers. Low-frequency sounds propagate through the...
Briefs Aerospace
Fabricating Transparent and Stretchable Supercapacitors Based on Wrinkled Graphene Electrodes
Stretchable electronic devices, including solar cells, light-emitting diodes, batteries, and textile supercapacitors, have been developed to retain...
News Manufacturing & Prototyping
Adjustable Angle Heads
BENZ adjustable angle heads help manufacturers to improve their machining and milling operations by enhancing productivity and efficiency. Because it can be adjusted to tricky angles, a single BENZ adjustable angle head can do the work of multiple tooling heads. Available in small to large custom sizes, the adjustable angle...
News Defense
3D-Printed Parts Fly on Airbus A350 XWB and ULA Rockets
Additive manufacturing (AM) is making significant headway in aerospace production programs, as evidenced by recent announcements that Airbus and rocket manufacturer United Launch...
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