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Soft Robotic Fish Swims Alongside Real Ones in Coral Reefs
A team from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) unveiled “SoFi,” a soft robotic fish that can independently swim alongside real fish in the ocean....
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Advancements Made to the Wingman Software-in-the-Loop (SIL) Simulation: How to Operate the SIL
The US Army Research Laboratory (ARL), US Army Tank Automotive Research Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC), DCS Corp., and Naval Surface...
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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...
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Stratasys Unveils High-Production Additive Manufacturing Spin-Off
Traditional manufacturers have long sought to combine the benefits of additive manufacturing with the material, quality, and economics of traditional production processes....
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Counter UAV System
SteekRock UAVLondon, UK+44 (0) 20 7491 8186www.sruav.co.uk The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is one of the most significant technological developments in the last decade. However, where once such equipment was unique...
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XPONENTIAL 2018 – An AUVSI Experience
The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) is bringing this year's XPONENTIAL 2018 to the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, CO. The event, which runs from April 30 – May 3,...
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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...
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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...
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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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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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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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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...
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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...
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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
AeroVironment, Inc.Monrovia, CA626-357-9983www.avinc.com AeroVironment, Inc. a manufacturer of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) for both military and commercial applications, received a contract award from the United...
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New Unmanned Air System Tested on USS Coronado
Researchers from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) successfully tested their Nomad flight vehicle off of USS Coronado (LCS 4) recently. This test demonstrated the Nomad’s upgraded...
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Spike Aerospace Validates Supersonic Aero Design with Subsonic Demonstrator
Recently, the Boston-based start-up, Spike Aerospace, successfully completed test flights of the SX-1.2—a subscale, subsonic, unmanned demonstrator for the...
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Three-Stream Engine Architecture Eyed for Next-Gen Military Aircraft
As fifth-generation fighter aircraft continue to fight their way into budgets and operation plans, there is already much work being done toward the development of various...
INSIDER Unmanned Systems
UAV Has Dual Flight Modes
Engineers have revealed a new technology concept –Adaptable UAVs – which can alternate between fixed and rotary wing flight modes in the same mission. When in rotary wing mode, the UAVs can be launched and...
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Jet Aviation, Honeywell Partner on Business Jet Avionics
Jet Aviation has developed a supplemental type certificate (STC) through the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) to update aging cockpit displays with Honeywell DU-875 liquid...
INSIDER Robotics, Automation & Control
University Researchers Give Self-Driving Vehicles a Boost
While the future of vehicles may be driverless, West Virginia University is steering the technology in the right direction. More and more cars being sold today include semi-automated...
INSIDER Robotics, Automation & Control
Wave Glider Surfs Across Stormy Drake Passage in Antarctica
The Southern Ocean is key to Earth’s climate, but the same gusting winds, big waves and strong currents that are important to ocean physics make it perilous for oceanographers....
INSIDER Aerospace
Controlling Drones with the Human Brain
A researcher from Arizona State University wants to command machines with the human brain. In fact, within ten years, Panagiotis Artemiadis, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at...
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Ruggedized Computer Rack Cases
Verotec IncManchester, NH603-821-9921www.verotec.us Verotec has been selected by Lockheed Martin to provide custom 19” 6U 600 mm deep rack cases to house part of the ISTAR system in the AJAX next generation...
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