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New Probe Could Improve Sonic Boom Investigation
An air data probe intended to improve investigation of sonic booms is flying on the F-15B aircraft at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center. NASA's goal for sonic boom research is to find...
INSIDER Aerospace
Flexible Skin Traps Radar Waves and Cloaks Objects
Iowa State University engineers developed a new flexible, stretchable, and tunable metamaterial skin that uses rows of small, liquid-metal devices to cloak an object from the sharp eyes of...
INSIDER Aerospace
Tests Show How Plastic Parts Deform During Flight
Scientists have conducted flights using a measurement configuration based on fiber optics to accurately verify the degree to which carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) parts deform during...
News RF & Microwave Electronics
Airbus Streamlines Fiber Optic Cable Repair Process
Airbus put together what it describes as a transnational, transfunctional team to develop an efficient new method to repair fiber optic cables.
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Boeing Comes Clean with Self-Cleaning Lavatory
Even as the importance of reducing both noise and pollutant emissions continues to grow in modern aircraft, so too does the recognition of the importance of the passenger experience.
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Bombardier C Series Taking off in Europe
In early March, Bombardier said that it had started month-long CS100 aircraft route-proving exercises in Europe. The dedicated CS100 is operated by Bombardier from launch operator Swiss Air Line’s...
INSIDER Defense
Armed Forces Are Developing Laser Weapons
Responding to lawmakers' questions about how close the Army is to developing offensive and defensive directed-energy weapons, Mary J. Miller responded: "I believe we're very close." Miller, deputy...
INSIDER Medical
Electric Patch Holds Promise for Treating PTSD
An average of 30 years had passed since the traumatic events that had left them depressed, anxious, irritable, hypervigilant, unable to sleep well and prone to nightmares. But for 12 people who...
INSIDER Defense
Researchers Design Bat-Inspired Wings for Micro Air Vehicles
Researchers from the University of Southampton have designed innovative membrane wings inspired by bats, paving the way for a new breed of unmanned Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs) that have...
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Probing Ways to Dampen Sonic Boom
One of the reasons there is not a supersonic plane flying in and out of an airport near you is because of that not-so-little thing known as a sonic boom. And that particular reason also has a lot to do with...
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Aurora Developing Distributed Hybrid-Electric Propulsion System for VTOL X-Plane
Aurora Flight Sciences has officially made it to Phase 2 of DARPA’s Vertical Takeoff and Landing Experimental Plane (VTOL X-Plane) program and will be...
Technical Innovation Manufacturing & Prototyping
GE Scanner Enhances Defect Detection for Industrial CT
GE Measurement & Control is offering its proprietary scatter|correct technology to industrial microCT users of GE’s phoenix v|tome|x m CT (computed tomography) system. It provides...
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Long-Range Air Force Strategies Include New B-21 Long-Range Bomber
With the Government Accountability Office (GOA) recently ruling in Northrop Grumman’s favor for the contract for the U.S. Air Force’s new long-range strike bomber, which...
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A High-Level Look at the Global MRO Market
Aerospace and defense (A&D) companies that provide maintenance repair and overhaul (MRO) services increasingly find themselves out of their comfort zone as the recent appetite for new...
News Electronics & Computers
Northrop Grumman Proves SYERS-2 Ready to Graduate from U-2 to RQ-4
Northrop Grumman flew a SYERS-2 (senior year electro-optical reconnaissance systems) intelligence gathering sensor on an RQ-4 Global Hawk, marking the debut of the legacy...
INSIDER Propulsion
NASA Uses Electric Propulsion in Experimental Plane
NASA is researching ideas that could lead to developing an electric propulsion-powered aircraft that would be quieter, more efficient, and more environmentally friendly than today's...
INSIDER Aerospace
Graphene Composite Could Keep Wings Ice-Free
A thin coating of graphene nanoribbons in epoxy developed at Rice University has proven effective at melting ice on a helicopter blade. The lab melted centimeter-thick ice from a static...
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EasyJet Puts Its Money on a Hybrid Plane Concept
As one of the infamous "low-cost airlines," easyJet has become much more well known as a company that is cost-cutting as opposed to money spending. But in a step toward expanding its cutting...
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A Tern Toward a Full-Scale VTOL UAV Demonstrator
Communication is key, during war or peace. In this day and age, both require the ability to conduct airborne intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), at will and upon demand. But...
INSIDER Defense
Robotic Falcon Captures and Retrieves Renegade Drones
Michigan Technological University is developing a drone catcher that could pursue and capture rogue drones that might threaten military installations, air traffic, sporting events —...
INSIDER Aerospace
Cockroach-Inspired Robots Open Doors for Military Missions
Supported by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, University of California-Berkeley researchers have developed a small, crawling robot that mimics a cockroach's ability to squeeze through...
INSIDER Defense
“Second Skin” Protects Soldiers from Chemical and Biological Agents
The U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center is working with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of California at...
News Transportation
Lockheed Martin Offering Its 'Production Ready' T-50A for USAF Trainer Competition
In February, Lockheed Martin made it official that it would be offering the T-50A in the U.S. Air Force’s Advanced Pilot Training (APT) competition. The...
INSIDER Electronics & Computers
Unique Composite Film Could Become Hard Disc of the Future
A research group from ITMO University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have invented unique conductive magnetic films that will be applied to transparent data storage, flexible...
INSIDER Electronics & Computers
New Battery Shuts Down at High Temps, Restarts When Cool
Stanford researchers have developed the first lithium-ion battery that shuts down before overheating, then restarts immediately when the temperature cools. The new technology could...
INSIDER Electronics & Computers
Scientists Work to Advance Conversational Computing
In an effort to help solve one of the grand challenges of artificial intelligence, the University of Michigan and IBM have launched a $4.5 million collaboration to develop a new class of...
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Production Code Generator
dSPACE’s (Wixom, MI) latest production code generator, TargetLink 4.1, supports the Functional Mock-up Interface (FMI) 2.0 and the latest version of the AUTOSAR standard, AUTOSAR 4.2. Moreover, MISRA C compliance and...
INSIDER Electronics & Computers
5mm C-QFN Package
Barry Industries (Attleboro, MA) and Modelithics, Inc. have published a report detailing the broadband performance of Barry's 5mm high temperature co-fired ceramic (HTCC) quad-flat-no-leads (QFN) package to 40GHz. The report...
INSIDER Electronics & Computers
ATX Motherboard
ADLINK Technology, Inc. (San Jose, CA) released its latest industrial ATX motherboard, the IMB-M43, powered by 6th Generation Intel® Core™ i7/i5/i3 processors and providing up to five PCIe slots. The PCIe slots can be...
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