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3D Systems Unveils Next-Gen High-Production Additive Metal Solution
3D Systems' next-generation additive metal production platform is designed to allow manufacturers to scale their additive manufacturing platform for integration into 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...
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Is Aviation on the Verge of an Electric Propulsion Disruption?
Electric propulsion is shaping the future of the automotive and the aerospace business. The question is no longer whether we will or will not drive and fly electrical vehicles,...
INSIDER Aerospace
Technique Predicts Early Warning Signs of Structure’s “Wellness”
Researchers from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory have shown that early fatigue damage behavior in structures may be predicted through the study of the microscale...
INSIDER Aerospace
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...
INSIDER Aerospace
Flights Less Risky with Digital Copilot
Digital Copilot is an intuitive technology that listens, talks—and to some extent—thinks like a human, offering enhanced air safety. It performs like a virtual copilot, helping to increase in-flight...
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Featured Product: Themis Announces Next-Gen Rugged Enterprise Servers
Rugged computing platform manufacturer Themis Computer® released its next-generation XR6 Rugged Enterprise Servers (RES) featuring the newest Intel® Xeon® Scalable...
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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 Data Acquisition
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....
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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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Scaled Composites Completes First Flight of Model 401
This past week, Scaled Composites announced the first flight of its experimental aircraft design, Model 401. Scaled—a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman—has built two Model 401 aircraft...
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Shape Memory Alloys at the Core of Future Aircraft Systems
The ability to have aircraft wings fold isn’t new, and, as Boeing is proving on the 777X, the desire to do so is not going away. As with the 777X and U.S Navy aircraft, the motive...
INSIDER Aerospace
Rare Material Could Shorten Air Travel Times
An average flight from Miami to Seattle takes about six hours and 40 minutes, but imagine being able to reduce that time to 50 minutes or less. A recent study by NASA and Binghamton University...
INSIDER Materials
Shaping Aviation: Metal with Memory
Through NASA’s Convergent Aeronautics Solutions (CAS) Project, a team of engineers working within its Spanwise Adaptive Wing (SAW) project is investigating the feasibility of bending or shaping portions...
INSIDER Aerospace
Drone Control: How the Human Brain Can Guide Robotic Swarms
Who needs a keyboard, a mouse, or a joystick? A researcher from Arizona State University wants to command machines with the human brain.
INSIDER Test & Measurement
Testing Large–Scale Vehicle–Borne Improvised Explosive Devices
In July of 2016, a refrigerator truck packed with explosives detonated next to a crowded apartment block in Baghdad’s Karrada neighborhood. The blast killed 323 people and...
INSIDER Energy
Army Scientists Discover Power in Urine
Scientists at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory observed an unexpected result when combining urine with a newly engineered nano-powder based on aluminum. It instantly releases hydrogen from the urine...
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Putting Smart Weapons to The Test
In the old days, a slingshot, BB gun, rifle or cannon was only as smart as the marksman taking aim. Now, many weapons are guided to their targets with the precision of infrared sensors and lasers. The...
INSIDER Aerospace
Simulation Results Could Help Quiet Jet Noise
Argonne National Laboratory engineers are working to create high-fidelity computer simulations to determine how jet turbulence produces noise. Working on Argonne’s supercomputer Mira, the team is applying computational fluid dynamics to capture the physics of the turbulence that is making the noise.
INSIDER Aerospace
NASA Tests Multi-Material 3D-Printed Rocket Engine Part
NASA engineers tested a 3D-printed rocket engine prototype part made of two different metal alloys via an advanced manufacturing process. The part was low-pressure, hot-fire-tested...
INSIDER Aerospace
Airline Industry Could Soar on Sugarcane Fuel
Plants Engineered to Replace Oil in Sugarcane and Sweet Sorghum (PETROSS), funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E), has developed sugarcane that produces oil, called...
Briefs Aerospace
The Impact of Video Compression on Remote Cardiac Pulse Measurement Using Imaging Photoplethysmography
Remote measurement of physiological signals has a number of advantages over traditional contact methods. It allows the measurement of vital...
Articles Aerospace
Scaling LiDAR Optical Payloads from Drones to Miniature UAVs
The recent surge in demand for adaptive cruise control (ACC) and commercial autonomous vehicles has drawn a lot of attention to these innovative applications. Based on pulsed laser...
Briefs Aerospace
Subjective Mapping of Dust-Emission Sources by Using MODIS Imagery
Dust storms (5 to 100 km across) often originate from multiple dust-emission sources (1 to 10 km across). Remote-sensing-based dust-source identification is a challenge. A...
Articles Test & Measurement
Quality and Validation of Digital Designs for Aerospace and Defense
As aerospace and defense manufacturing becomes increasingly digitized—from the earliest design stages to the factory floor and beyond—data accuracy is fundamental to...
Application Briefs Data Acquisition
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...
Briefs Test & Measurement
Custom Data Logger for Real-Time Remote Field Data Collections
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), CHL, FRF, had a need for a remote real-time data collection system to control instruments and log and communicate data from five observing...
Briefs Aerospace
Initial Validation of Ballistic Shock Accelerometers
Method 522.2 of MIL-STD-810G CN1 defines ballistic shock as “a high-level shock that generally results from the impact of projectiles or ordnance on armored combat vehicles”. Typical...
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