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Progress toward reducing airframe and landing gear noise Canadian researchers are finding ways to reduce landing noise in a facility designed to study the sounds that come from the interaction of certain airplane parts and wind. Read full story

Medical robotics save the day for NASA satellites Leveraging their reputation as experts in medical robotics, Johns Hopkins engineers have turned their attention skyward to help NASA with a space dilemma. Read full story

Pitt has singular focus on switches Researchers have invented a new type of electronic switch that performs electronic logic functions within a single molecule. Read full story

UAVs shrink as technology grows AeroVironment says it achieved a technological milestone never achieved before by building and flying a wing-flapping air vehicle, carrying its own energy source and using only two flapping wings for propulsion and control. Read full story

New standard a major milestone for biofuels The aviation industry is now deploying biofuels on commercial flights after years of demonstration test flights, but high costs will keep bookings few and far between for a few more years. Read full story

BLASTing brownout Examining the nature of U.S. military helicopter losses from 2002-08, BAE identified a very significant proportion of accidents that could have been avoided, or reduced, by using an active scanning radar sensor and new integrated software. Read full story

Dunmore materials insulate in space Insulating films and tapes supplied by Dunmore Corp. are providing protection from thermal damage and magnetic interference for the electronic systems on board NASA’s Juno probe, which was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Aug. 5. Read full story

Embraer's progress on clean-sheet military program It has been over two years since Embraer announced that it would be developing the KC-390 military airlift and tanker jet under a contract with the Brazilian Air Force, which established the requirements for the aircraft as it did with other Embraer military programs. Read full story

New airframes and avionics put up a different lightning fight Latest lightning-protection standards drive a new generation of transient voltage suppressor solutions that are better capable of diffusing accumulated heat within the short timescale of a typical multi-stroke lightning-strike pulse train. Read full story