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Extended-Range Loitering System
UVision Air LtdZur Igal, Israel+972 9 749 6823www.uvisionuav.com UVision Air Ltd. — a company that specializes in lethal aerial loitering systems of all sizes — has successfully demonstrated the Hero-400EC...
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Robotic Paint Removal System
Air Force Research LaboratoryWright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH+1 937-255-0017www.wpafb.af.mil AFRL Materials Integrity engineers recently played a key role in enabling the safer and more efficient removal of paint...
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Answering Your Questions: Is This the End of VME?
A reader asked our expert: What technology will spell the beginning of the end for the VME embedded computing platform?
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Avoiding EMI
Aircraft produced and operated today increasingly rely electrical and electronic equipment to perform various functions. If one of these electronic functions were to fail, the impact felt by, say, a passenger jet could be as...
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Rolls-Royce Starts Lean-Burn Combustion Engine Icing Tests
In March, a new demonstrator engine by Rolls-Royce, featuring a cutting-edge lean-burn and low-emissions combustion system for future jet engine programs, began icing tests at the...
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AeroVironment Releases New Puma 3
Last month, AeroVironment, Inc. began accepting orders for their new Puma 3 unmanned aerial system (UAS). The company, which also manufacturers UASs for commercial applications, developed the Puma 3 with...
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The Next Material Disruption
In a recent joint paper by the Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) and the National Graphene Institute (NGI) at the University of Manchester, researchers outlined the disruptive impact potential of graphene...
INSIDER Aerospace
Corrosion Evaluation System Makes "Sense" for Aircraft Coatings
Through a Small Business Innovation Research project with Luna Innovations, the Air Force supported the development of CorRES, an improved system for coating materials...
INSIDER Aerospace
Flight Control System Virtually Eliminates Pilot Error
The L1 adaptive flight control system maintains aircraft performance and maneuverability even in the presence of severe failures - ultimately increasing aircraft safety, resilience to...
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Engine Air-Brakes
Airplanes, one of humanity's greatest inventions, evoke feelings of awe and amazement for most people, unless you live uncomfortably close to a major airport, in which case the feeling may become annoyance and irritation....
Briefs Mechanical & Fluid Systems
Calculation of Weapon Platform Attitude and Cant Using Available Sensor Feedback
When firing artillery, there is typically a maximum angle that the platform cannot exceed relative to the Earth plane. This is due to the large recoil forces...
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X Marks the Spot
LiquidPiston Inc., an advanced internal combustion engine (ICE) technology company, has reimagined combustion engines with a new platform that can run on multiple fuels, including diesel, jet fuel, and gasoline. This...
News Transportation
EU to Deploy UAV Traffic Management System by 2019
The Geneva-based body that navigates international air services for Switzerland and certain bordering countries, skyguide, joined forces with AirMap unmanned traffic management (UTM) to...
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Connect Them All
Traditionally, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) design was focused on airframe and propulsion system integration. UAV ground control systems were often thought of as a tool for flight-testing, sometimes after-the-fact. The...
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Rolls-Royce's Next Move
It seems that every large Original Equipment Manufacturing (OEM) aerospace group has now realized that over the long term, there is enhanced profitability to be gained by offering customers a total package that...
News Test & Measurement
Breaking Bonds
Bonded composite airframe structures offer a potential to achieve more affordable manufacturing and more efficient structures, ultimately meeting United States Air Force (USAF) goals to increase range and reduce fuel...
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Boeing Unveils New Unmanned Cargo Air Vehicle Prototype
Amazon continues to push ahead with unmanned aerial delivery vehicles as part of its Prime Air service. Start-up company Zipline is delivering medical supplies across East Africa with...
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A Career in Aviation and Advocacy Takes Flight
For as long as he can remember, Ryan Gibson has wanted to work in the aircraft industry. Raised in an aviation family—his grandfather trained pilots during World War II, his father was a...
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Sharks on a Plane? Skin Scales Lift Aircraft Design
To improve a flying vehicle, sometimes you have to turn to a reliable model that has been operating for hundreds of millions of years.
News RF & Microwave Electronics
Military, Suppliers Focus on Long-Term Technical Advances, Compatibility
Equipment developers are moving quickly to ensure that military users will have long-term access to boards and modules that provide higher performance, easy...
News Defense
NASA Nears Testing on Fission Reactor for Missions to Moon, Mars
The notion that NASA is currently developing a nuclear power system might not seem that Earth shattering. The agency has flown a number of missions powered by radioisotope...
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Designing Composite Engine Cowling for Improved Heat Resistance
When a helicopter is hovering, there is little airflow passing through the engine cowling and hot stagnant air will gather in the engine compartment. During extended hover...
INSIDER Aerospace
NASA Alloy Could Fold Wings in Flight
NASA has successfully applied a new technology in flight that allows aircraft to fold their wings to different angles while in the air. Part of the Spanwise Adaptive Wing (SAW) project, the technology...
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New Products
Rugged Servers with Skylake Architecture Themis Computer® (Fremont, CA) announced the launch of its next generation XR6 Rugged Enterprise Servers (RES) featuring the newest Intel® Xeon® Scalable (Skylake) Processors.
Briefs Aerospace
Natural DNA-Based Nonvolatile Resistive Switching Memory
Motivated by the demand for an even larger storage capacity in the information era, research efforts have been devoted to the development of more efficient and cost-effective memory elements.
Briefs Software
A Mechanistic Analysis of Oxygen Vacancy Driven Conductive Filament Formation in Resistive Random Access Memory Metal/NiO/Metal Structures
Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM) devices have drawn much interest in the last decade, particularly...
Application Briefs Aerospace
Unmanned Aircraft Training Materials
Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BISim)Orlando, FL+1 407-608-7000https://bisimulations.com The U.S. Air Force Academy has selected VBS3 and VBS Fires FST products from Bohemia Interactive Simulations and...
INSIDER Aerospace
Drone Flies Freely with Independently Controlled Wings
A research team designed the main wings of the Nsphere aerial vehicle to be controlled separately and independently. The drone with independently controlled wings can take off and land...
INSIDER Aerospace
NASA Takes Aviation Research to the ‘Max’
NASA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) are studying what happens with engine performance, emissions, and contrail formation when using different types of fuels in jet engines. The...
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