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Bye Aerospace’s Solar-Electric Prototype Completes First Flight
Bye Aerospace of Englewood, Colo. recently completed the first flight of its solar electric technology demonstrator prototype. The first flight – on August 20 – and...
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Demand up for Composite-Grade, High-Performance Plastics Across Aerospace, Automotive
Demand for high-performance plastics (HPPs) is up across the aerospace industry, driven by such key trends as growing performance requirements, increased...
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2018 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid Limited
Don’t know how I overlooked the Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid for so long, but it gets my personal award for most pleasant—and pleasingly surprising—vehicle I’ll drive in 2018. Yep, this thing is so...
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2019 Dodge Challenger: Deceased Demon Seeds Stronger and Wider Muscle-Car Lineup
The 2019 Dodge Challenger lineup sees a savvy refresh that keenly redistributes its muscle-car strengths. With the one-model-year-only Demon passing into...
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Ford Shifts to Vehicle Architectures
Ford Motor Company is going from nine global platforms to five flexible vehicle architectures with a strong emphasis on sharing modules. The automaker’s revised product development process is...
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Toyota Tacoma TRD Pro
It’s hardly a secret that Toyota’s Tacoma owns the midsize pickup market—both in raw sales and in perception. After a kinda-sorta redesign of the Tacoma for 2016, the TRD Pro model followed for 2017 to establish...
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Additive Manufacturing, Composites Help Grow Global Electric Aircraft Market
The electric aircraft market continues to grow at a fast pace, boosted by increasing demand for ultralight electric test aircraft and innovative general aviation (GA)...
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Airbus Zephyr S Breaks World Flight Endurance Record During Maiden Flight
After taking off on July 11 in Arizona, the Zephyr S unmanned aircraft from Airbus Defence and Space in Ottobrunn, Germany logged a maiden flight of over 25 days –...
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GKN Turns the CV Joint Inside-Out
GKN Driveline is developing an innovative driveshaft concept that literally turns inside out the traditional configuration of the constant-velocity joint (CVJ), bringing potential benefits to both...
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Opel’s Revamped Engineering Mission
When the French Groupe PSA (Peugeot, Citroën, DS Automobiles), took German Opel/Vauxhall off GM’s hands last year for $2.1 billion, PSA stressed it would make great use of the German company’s...
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U.K.’s Advanced Propulsion Center Lays out Roadmap for High-Tech, Low-Carbon Transportation
A major new report on a technology roadmap for “beyond the horizon” low-carbon vehicle propulsion technology concludes that there is unlikely...
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Mahle Prepares for First Passenger Car E-Motor Application
With a portfolio that includes traction drive motors for 2- and 4-wheel drive off-road vehicles, Mahle will soon add 48-volt drive motors for light-duty passenger electric vehicles.
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Lockheed Martin and Arconic Collaborate on 3D Printing and Advanced Aerospace Materials
As part of an initiative to develop next-generation advanced materials and manufacturing processes, Lockheed Martin Corporation, based out of Bethesda,...
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Boeing Aerospace & Autonomy Center to Focus on Designing, Building, Flying Autonomous Aircraft
Boeing (NYSE:BA) officials plan to open the new Boeing Aerospace & Autonomy Center in Cambridge, Mass., in the Massachusetts Institute of...
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NASA, Boeing, SpaceX to Launch ‘New Era in Human Spaceflight’
Astronaut launches will return to U.S. soil for the first time since the space shuttle’s retirement in 2011. NASA officials have named the first U.S. astronauts who will fly...
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Starship Road Trip
Dubbed the Starship Initiative, the collaboration between Shell and AirFlow Truck Co. on the Starship Class 8 concept truck achieved 178.4 ton-mpg for freight ton efficiency (FTE) in a recent cross-country drive, a nearly...
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Big Data and Next-Gen Prognostics for Heavy-Duty Vehicles
Diagnostics have been around for a long time and are well understood and standardized. Huge amounts of diagnostic data have piled up over the years; fortunately, the data is machine...
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Understanding the Self-Driving Revolution
To understand the self-driving revolution, you must first understand Lindsay Brooke's opinion on the matter. Read on to do just that.
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Deutz Advances ‘E’ Strategy—prototypes on the Horizon
Deutz previously had indicated that alternative drives will play an increasingly important role in its core segments in the future. Taking the next step in that direction, the...
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Intelligence Drives Efficiency, Safety and Uptime of Commercial Vehicles
Several leaders of global commercial-vehicle manufacturers converged in mid-July for a press workshop to discuss the most pressing technological, logistical and...
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AxleTech Develops Electric Independent Suspension Concept for Vehicles Up to 58,000-lb GCWR
Intended for a range of vehicle types — full battery electric vehicles, fuel cell range-extender EVs, and internal combustion engine or turbine generator range extenders — the 5000 Series electric independent suspension axle system (eISAS) recently revealed by AxleTech serves as a complete electric powertrain.
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Permeation Tests on Polypropylene Fiber Materials
The Toxic Industrial Chemical/Toxic Industrial Material (TIC/TIM) Task Force MFR#1 published in February 2009 focuses on inhalation hazards in an operational environment and provides a list of...
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Eaton Creates EMobility Business to Meet Electrified Technology Demand
Eaton has combined products, expertise and global manufacturing capabilities from its Electrical and Vehicle businesses to form a new eMobility business tasked to...
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SAE International Anti-Counterfeit Standards Integral to Obsolescence Management
Obsolescence management is key to the safe, secure, and reliable operation of platforms and systems over a long operational life. Counterfeit parts prevention...
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Mentor Design Tool Simplifies J1939 Development
The explosion of electronic functions on commercial vehicles is driving an expansion of vehicle networks, making network design and configuration an important factor in electronic...
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Rolls-Royce to Work with Airframe Manufacturers, Seek Partners for EVTOL Project
Rolls-Royce in London is unveiling a concept electric vertical take-off and landing (EVTOL) vehicle, including civil and military variants, that could take to the...
News Manned Systems
Boeing, SparkCognition Partner on Safe Integration of Autonomous Air Vehicles in Airspace
Boeing (NYSE:BA) and SparkCognition, an artificial intelligence (AI) technology company in Austin, Texas, are collaborating on unmanned aircraft system...
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GE Aviation, Teradata Partner on Data Analytics, Edge Connectivity for Airlines
Officials at GE Aviation in Evandale, Ohio, and Teradata (NYSE:TDC) in Dayton, Ohio, are expanding their partnership to provide airlines with a framework that...
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Aircraft, Engine Orders Reach $98B, Focus on Flying Farther, Faster, Greener at Farnborough Airshow
Aircraft orders exceed $95 billion in value and are complemented by roughly $3 billion in aircraft engine and engine service agreement...
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A New Approach to Manufacturing Machine Connectivity for the Air Force
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Optimizing Production Processes with the Virtual Twin
