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Designing Quieter Aircraft Via Acoustic Simulation
Greater fuel efficiency and low emission requirements have grown into such an urgent imperative in aircraft design that it often overshadows an equally significant factor in air...
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Army Researchers Inspire Commercial Rifle Fire Control Systems
Researchers at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory go about their business every day working on projects to help better serve the military and its members who protect our country....
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Army Secures Critical Component for Artillery, Mortar Ammunition
The U.S. Army is nearing completion on a project to eliminate its dependency on foreign countries for a critical energetic component in artillery and mortar ammunition, officials...
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World War II-Era Equipment Gets Restored For Today's Research Needs
It sounds like the ultimate recycling project. The Naval Research Laboratory and the Office of Naval Research, through its INTOP Program, have taken a 96,000-pound piece of...
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Dassault Magnifies Focus on Its 5X
The “glass cockpit” concept transitioned very rapidly in commercial aviation, replacing familiar analog cockpit layouts to embrace the adaptability of multi-functioning displays and the flexibility to...
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Architecture Developed for Monitoring and Anomaly Detection of Space Systems
The ability to interface real-time instrumentation data from remote hardware to local data analysis systems is important in the space industry. NASA, for example,...
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Boeing Selects Site for New 777X Composite Wing Center
Boeing has selected its Everett, WA, site as the location for a new composite wing center for the 777X program. Boeing evaluated criteria that were designed to find the wing fabrication...
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Ball Aerospace Awarded Contract for Ion Velocity Meter
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has been awarded a $5.8 million contract from the Defense Weather System Directorate at the Space and Missile Systems Center in Los Angeles, CA,...
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Airbus and COMAC to Cooperate on Sustainable Air Transport Growth
Airbus and Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC) signed a memorandum of understanding to develop a mutual understanding on new air traffic management concepts and...
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GKN Aerospace-Led Project Automates Assembly of Aircraft Wing Structures
GKN Aerospace is leading a project under the Structures Technology Maturity (STeM) program that aims to automate the assembly of aircraft structures with the goal of...
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Maintenance Tools for Improved Engine Bearing Performance
Of all industrial sectors, aircraft engine manufacturing and maintenance have possibly the most stringent requirements and specifications for rolling bearings and related components....
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Aurora Wins DARPA VTOL X-Plane Program Contract
Aurora Flight Sciences has been awarded a Phase I contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) X-Plane program. Aurora’s innovative...
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Transparent Display System Could Provide Heads-Up Data
Transparent displays have a variety of potential applications — such as the ability to see navigation or dashboard information while looking through the windshield of a car or plane, or...
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Launching the Fastest Plane of the Future
It's a sci-fi concept that's at the center of a 25-year exploratory project: building a hypersonic aircraft that takes off from the runway and doesn't need a rest, inspection or repair after it lands...
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Virtual Reality Immerses Passengers in "See-Through" Cabin
In the VR-Hyperspace project, Fraunhofer IAO has teamed up with eight partners from six European countries to investigate how flight journeys can be made into a more pleasant experience...
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Hard Chrome Process
The ANKOR Hydraulics hard chrome process from Enthone delivers corrosion resistance while offering a more sustainable alternative to other high-efficiency, etch-free hard chrome processes for hydraulics/fluid power applications. The process, which imparts pore-free chrome deposits on steel, eliminates failures related to...
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Integrated Servo Motor
Designed for battery-powered and low-voltage applications, the MAC402 from JVL is the V dc version of the MAC400 400-W integrated servo motor. The supply range for the MAC402 is 12 to 48 V dc, and full power of 400 W...
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Nano Circular Connector
TE Connectivity’s CeeLok FAS-T nano circular connector is a nano-miniature, rugged I/O connector capable of meeting 10 gigabit Ethernet performance. The proven, noise-canceling contact configuration minimizes...
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PEEK Wear Compounds
The LUVOCOM 8000 series of PEEK wear compounds from Lehvoss North America incorporates proprietary additives that further elevate the wear resistance of PEEK compounds. Though it is well known that in thermoplastic...
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Inline Caster
Hamilton Standard custom engineered an all-stainless inline caster for a major aerospace supplier. The aerospace company ordered two of these special casters designed for a clean room environment and each with a carrying...
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ETS Researchers Develop New Methodology for Wind Tunnel Calibration
In recent years, the École de Technologie Supérieure (ETS) Research Laboratory in Active Controls, Avionics, and Aeroservoelasticity (LARCASE) has acquired several...
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CROWS Second Screen Boosts Situational Awareness For Vehicle Crews
When Spc. Zachary Cline found himself in a Taliban ambush this summer, he was operating the .50 Cal M2 mounted on a Common Remotely Operated Weapons Station from the back of his...
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Researchers Develop World’s Highest Quantum Efficiency UV Photodetectors
Researchers from Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science have developed the world’s highest quantum efficiency ultraviolet (UV)...
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Army Envisions Smarter Robots In Its Future
Unmanned robots have already proven their worth on the battlefield, neutralizing improvised explosive devices, and more capable ones are coming in the future, according to the commander of U.S. Army...
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Boeing Advances Automation with Smart and Portable Orbital Drilling Tools for 787
Since robotic work cells have proven to be highly effective in certain applications, and the technology is always improving, some might dream of a day when...
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Implementing Interconnected Generation in Future Civil Aircraft
In addition to providing thrust, the engines on conventional civil jet airliners generate power for onboard systems and ancillary loads in the form of pneumatic, hydraulic, and...
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Electronics Take Charge
Electronic controls are slowly transforming aircraft engines of all types, bringing improved fuel consumption, improved efficiency, and more power. As the functionality of control units for jet engines increases, digital...
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Optically Transparent EMI Shielding for Defense and Aerospace Applications
Modern electronic devices and computing equipment are often integrated with wireless capabilities which utilize multi-bands for high speed communication, as well as high...
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Pumped Two-Phase Cooling for Thermal Management of High Heat Flux Electronics
Pumped two-phase cooling provides a compact, low pumping power option for thermal management in high heat flux applications (300-500W/cm2). Compared to single-phase...
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