SAE International leading conversations at Transformative Vertical Flight Conference
2022-01-21
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Boeing to leverage Aurora acquisition for technical know-how
2017-11-08
The technology-driven Aurora has been involved in numerous NASA programs since its founding in 1989, and as recently as October 24 announced that it had been awarded a contract to perform a comprehensive evaluation of NASA’s Single-aisle Turboelectric Aircraft with Aft Boundary Layer propulsion aircraft concept, and is also renowned for its work on the D8 and DARPA's XV-24A.
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First F-35 crash; pilot safe
2018-10-01
On September 28, a day after the first Lockheed Martin F-35B combat strike, an F-35B stationed at USMC Air Station Beaufort crashed a short distance from the base. The aircraft was part of the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing belonging to Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron 501.
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Deloitte issues report on viability of eVTOL UAM transportation
2019-06-07
In its report, Deloitte points to an ongoing challenge to manage and regulate an increasingly diverse airspace and overcome significant psychological barriers of consumers.
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Boeing’s CAV makes first outdoor flight
2019-06-06
The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operated in a safe and controlled environment, successfully took off, hovered, transitioned to forward flight, and then landed safely.
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Vertical Aerospace is Honeywell’s latest partner in the UAM industry
2019-06-05
Through the partnership, Honeywell Aerospace plans to integrate its current avionics, navigation, fly-by-wire technologies into Vertical Aerospace’s electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) vehicles.
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Sikorsky’s autonomous Black Hawk helicopter takes flight
2019-06-06
Sikorsky tested a new full-authority, fly-by-wire flight control technology kit for the first time on a Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk medium-lift utility helicopter. The flight marked the beginning of the flight test program for the soon-to-be optionally piloted rotorcraft.
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Like a good neighbor, Impossible Aerospace flew over to a nearby construction fire to help locate hotspots for first responders
2019-07-08
When a four-alarm fire started burning at a Santa Clara, California construction site down the street from Impossible Aerospace Corporation, the startup sent one of its US-1 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or drone equipped with thermal and optical sensors to help ground crews battle the blaze.
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Hybrid Air Vehicles, Collins Aerospace, and the University of Nottingham receive grant to develop electric propulsion for the Airlander 10
2019-05-08
The prototype project, named E-HAV1, will undergo ground testing and will be optimized for manufacturing as a directly application for future Airlander 10 airships – replacing the fuel-burning forward engines as the first step towards an all-electric variant.
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Wing’s UAS delivery service has FAA certification
2019-04-29
Alphabet’s Wing project has become the first UAS delivery service to obtain air carrier certification from the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and will test autonomous commercial air delivery services in southwest Virginia.
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DARPA’s latest drone swarm sprint focuses on virtual environments
2019-05-13
Through OFFSET, DARPA envisions swarms of 250 collaborative autonomous systems – including unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) – providing critical capabilities to ground units in urban areas where challenges such as tall buildings, tight spaces, and limited sight lines constrain essential communications, sensing, maneuverability, and autonomous operations.
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Astro’s Elroy urban air mobility vehicle to get a new stablemate this summer
2019-05-03
The yet-to-be-named modular system prototype will feature an updated proprietary control system, triple redundancy capabilities, improved flight time, increases speed and payload capacity, and a new battery management system.
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The Bell V-280 Valor will be engined by Rolls-Royce
2019-05-07
Bell Helicopter will partner with Rolls-Royce to develop an optimized propulsion system for the Bell V-280 Valor and unmanned V-247 Vigilant vertical lift tiltrotor aircraft – the company’s candidate platforms for the U.S. Army’s Future Vertical Lift (FVL) program.
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“The Grid” promises to be the most advanced electric propulsion laboratory in the aerospace industry
2019-04-08
Collins Aerospace, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation (UTC), has laid out its plans for what is calling “The Grid” – an 25,000-square-foot advanced electric power systems laboratory for designing and testing next-generation, more-electric aircraft technologies for commercial, military, and business aviation.
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CityAirbus urban air mobility vehicle completes first flight
2019-05-06
According to Airbus, the CityAirbus UAM vehicle – or “air taxi” – will initially be operated by a pilot for certification and market entry purposes; however, the aircraft is designed for fully autonomous flight once regulations are established.
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SAE International and GAMA Sign Cooperation Agreement for General and Business Aviation Efforts
2021-06-10
Coordination Between SAE International and GAMA Will Further Enhance the Value for Industry and Government Partners
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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.
Attend - SAE M3 - Multi-Modal Mobility Conference & Exhibition
2024-09-09
SAE M3 Multi-Modal Mobility Conference Exhibition as the industry leader committed to uniting engineers across the global mobility engineering ecosystem
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New Swarm and Search AI Challenge combines machine learning and UASs to help map wildfires
2019-02-06
The Swarm and Search AI Challenge: 2019 Fire Hack challenge will culminate in a March 2019 showdown and explore methods for planning complex UAS or “drone” swarm operations.
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The GE T901 will be the U.S. Army’s next gen helicopter engine
2019-02-05
While GE Aviation’s T700 turboshaft engine has powered the U.S. Army’s Apache and Sikorsky helicopters for more than 46 years, the U.S. Army will replace the T700 with GE Aviation’s fully modular T901-GE-900 engine as part of the Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) phase of the U.S. Army’s Improved Turbine Engine Program.
