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GoFly announces Phase II winning teams at AeroTech Americas

2019-03-26

Early today at AeroTech Americas – SAE International’s North America-based international aerospace congress – GoFly announced the five Phase II winners of the GoFly Prize for personal mobility vehicles. Each of the innovative winning teams, from the United States, Latvia, Russia, and the Netherlands, were awarded $50,000 in prizes.

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The next material disruption

2018-04-06

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 applications in aerospace. This comes at a time of marked graphene innovation from research teams in Japan and Singapore.

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Registration is Now Open for SAE International’s 2018 On-Board Diagnostics Symposium

2018-05-08

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SAE International Welcomes Wiley Aerospace and Automotive Collections to the SAE MOBILUS Technical Resource Platform

2018-05-14

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AFRL demos advanced multipurpose robotics for aerospace

2018-06-07

Engineers from the Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL’s) Manufacturing Technologies Division successfully demonstrated the capabilities of a new multi-purpose maintenance and manufacturing robot at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio.

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New SAE International Education Program Provides Knowledge and Skills for Young and Early-Career Engineers

2018-06-28

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Equispheres accelerates additive manufacturing innovation with $5M from Lockheed Martin

2018-06-19

Equispheres will use the investment to conduct the research and development needed to build reactors that will produce powders of higher-strength materials, such as steels, cobalt, chrome, and Inconel.

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Gregory E. Saunders, Director of the Defense Standardization Program Office, Honored with SAE International Medal of Honor

2018-05-14

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The eVTOL disruption goes viral

2018-06-05

Even at the early stages of this new era of urban air mobility, there is already a scramble amongst well-known aerospace giants, as well as start-ups, to develop and evaluate the civil VTOL market. And this all starts with air-taxi concepts.

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Collins Aerospace cabin solutions maintain passenger experience while reducing aircraft weight

2019-04-01

For airlines, providing an enjoyable customer experience, especially on long-haul flights, is a balancing act of additional features and weight and space savings. Collins Aerospace is pioneering the use of MicroLED lighting technology to increases lighting flexibility and slimline kiosks to give passengers premium self-service options.

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Approved Vendor List supplier reduction: Everyone is doing it

2019-04-11

Every quality-run organization has a supplier vetting process. The one common denominator always heard in supplier audits is: "We simply must reduce our list of suppliers." It’s understandable. It can be tough for a company to manage a list of hundreds, if not thousands, of suppliers.

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AESQ Supplier Forum Keynote Announced

2019-03-19

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Lockheed Martin’s next-gen, 360-degree vision system flies on the Bell V-280 Valor

2019-04-18

The imagining system, or Pilotage Distributed Aperture Sensor (PDAS) system, is designed to enhance situational awareness and threat detection for pilots and auxiliary personnel in visually degraded environments.

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Goodfellow Corporation offers graphene variant produced through a new “metal-free” methane process

2019-04-11

Goodfellow’s process involves breaking methane gas – a very potent greenhouse gas – into hydrogen and elemental carbon atoms in a plasma reactor. The carbon atoms recombine into graphene sheets in the hydrogen atmosphere.

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SAE International, Ford, General Motors, and Toyota form Automated Vehicle Safety Consortium

2019-04-04

SAE International is partnering with Ford, General Motors (GM), and Toyota to form the Automated Vehicle Safety Consortium (AVSC), which will work to help safely advance the testing, precompetitive development, and deployment of SAE Level 4 and 5 automated vehicles. The AVSC will provide a safety framework around which autonomous technology can responsibly evolve in advance of broad deployment, ultimately helping to inform and accelerate the development of industry standards for autonomous vehicles (AVs) and harmonize with efforts of other consortia and standards bodies. 

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Boeing flies a 737 Max 7 with MCAS software update

2019-04-04

Chicago-based Boeing recently completed a “demo flight” of a 737 MAX 7 narrow-body airliner equipped with updated Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) software.

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An economical, FAA-certified avionics upgrade for light general aviation aircraft

2019-03-19

AeroVonics LLC, an aerospace startup based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, has received Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) certification for its initial launch product: a two-inch, twelve-function flight avionics instrument for light general aviation aircraft.

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Media Registration Open for SAE International’s WCX World Congress Experience in Detroit

2019-04-05

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Collins Aerospace taps Wind River Helix virtualization platform to future-proof avionics

2019-04-19

Future airspace will be filled with unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) or drones, commercial aircraft, helicopters, and more. Several prototypes are currently targeting urban air mobility (UAM) platforms, such as air taxis, and revolutionary aircraft models like next-generation commercial supersonic aircraft. Add to this autonomous swarm technologies, enabling manned-unmanned teaming, and systems for future vertical lift and it’s clear that the technology wave can easily become overwhelming.

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JAXA and Toyota partner, focus on future lunar mobility

2019-03-13

Officials at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Toyota Motor Corp. in Tokyo have taken a first step toward collaborating on international space exploration, having agreed to accelerate their ongoing joint study of a manned, pressurized rover powered by fuel cell technologies to enable lunar mobility.