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The “Know My PT6” app is a digital gateway to maintenance recommendations and to the services and facilities that P&W offers through its global customer service network for engine maintainers, owners, operators and pilots. It is designed to help PT6 customers and operators optimize the performance and availability of their PT6-powered aircraft.

The Raytheon Company is testing a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool developed to help determine when the multi-mode radar installed on U.S. Air Force CV-22 tiltrotor aircraft is in need of service.

Making an impact in fastening Engineers at Electroimpact help the company get a leg up on the competition in automated fastening. Narrowing in on military requirements UAVs/UCAVs are increasingly important, with the accent on integration- and wider engine choice. Machining and turning centers take center stage Makers of CNC machining equipment are incorporating more and better functionality into their products so users cope better with processing challenges such as those posed by tough new grades of aerospace materials. Open (and often) communication As aircraft companies battle for market share, uniting design and manufacturing teams remains a key challenge.

Simulating real-time safety Aircraft manufacturers are all pushing for ways to develop software more quickly without sacrificing reliability. Next-generation launchers: Only the tried and true need apply Companies find that some elements of the recipe for success have been handed down for generations. Polar satellites tries to weather storm NPOESS satellites would allow more accurate weather predictions for both military and civilian weather services.

Full throttle for engine solutions Powering aircraft from Mach 2 fighters to tiny hovering UAVs, military engine technology is now operating on a very broad front. Design and production flexibility together with reduced in-service costs are priorities. To the breaking point Test engineers use new rigs and data-acquisition equipment on the latest generation of pneumatics, engines, and airframes. PCs move into the cockpit Pilot training is getting a bit less expensive with the introduction of more portable flight simulations.

Showing how it's done Engineers are using software to better manage product development data, and applying tools to a new class of problems. NASA goes deep The agency's new long-term space exploration program starts with a return to the moon and will ultimately enable future exploration of Mars and other solar system destinations. Farnborough preview In an event that happens just once every two years, bringing the multitudes together, it is important to get as much technology as possible into the open and to find solutions to hard problems. Seats under crash loading The FAA and academia have conducted aircraft seat drop tests to compare and contrast passenger crash protection. A fluid approach Aerospace engineers have started using CFD software earlier and earlier in the design process.

Advancing the art of manufacturing Use of new manufacturing tools and techniques are allowing aircraft makers to deliver their products faster. A materialistic industry Deciding which material is best suited to construct a part or plane is one of the most complex issues an aerospace engineer faces. Speeding up engine manufacture Fiber optics play a big role in percussion drilling tiny holes.

Almost all aerospace vehicles that depend on aerodynamic lift use changes in geometry for control. Examples include ailerons, elevators and flap deflections. As a theoretical concept these controls represent changes in one of the necessary boundary conditions for the solution of the Navier Stokes equations, which model the airflow. The complete boundary conditions require that the velocities and the temperature on the body surface be defined. In principle, the airflow can be changed by altering the temperature on the body surface. The effectiveness of controlling a vehicle by altering the surface temperature, which is equivalent to an extraction of energy from the airflow, is the topic of this research.

A Hypersonic Strike Fighter (HSF) would provide many benefits over current fighters, including increased effectiveness and survivability. ...A parametric method was developed to determine aerodynamic characteristics of hypersonic vehicles in a rapid, automated way. This parametric method and other tools were then used to select a baseline design and optimize this baseline for the notional mission.

The desire to facilitate the conceptual and preliminary design of hypersonic cruise vehicles has created the need for simple, fast, versatile, and trusted aerodynamic analysis tools. ...Independence, superposition, and scaling properties of the hypersonic engineering method afford an expansive design space without traditional compounding penalties. ...This work postulates the procedure, details the execution, and exposes the results of generating uncompromised aerodynamic metamodels for hypersonic cruise vehicle design.

The idea of multidisciplinary optimization ( MDO ) has been introduced successfully into wide areas of engineering since the last years. The aircraft industry, especially the preliminary design, was dominated by brilliant personalities up into the seventies. Proposed configurations were designed, built, tested, dropped or a success. This means, that the decision for building an aircraft series was made after successful flight testing. But on one hand due to the pressure of the rising amount of work from more demanding standards which includes more people in the decision process and on the other hand due to more efficient aircraft design tools and performance prediction, the project “go-ahead” tends to go more into the early stages of the hitherto known process of defining civil transport aircraft.

The IPT, which is charged with lowering the cost and increasing the performance of future hypersonic systems, believes that everyday usage of the NASP technologies in applications such as the automotive industry will ensure cheaper, ready availability at a later date.

Earth orbit) and possibilities for military and civil hypersonic aircraft. In addition, both long and shorter-term benefits will amount from the applications of these NASP developed technologies.

Measurements of the gas state properties in hypersonic propulsion system research present unique problems demanding unconventional diagnostic measurement system design solutions.

Current estimates of hydraulic power requirements for the S. S. T. indicate that system pressure, fluid temperature and power levels will increase sharply over present jet transports. Initial examination of projected effects of increased fluid temperature on operational life of pumping equipment discloses a life gap existing between present high temperature development and anticipated equipment life for the S. S. T. Initial comparisons of centralized power generation and distribution are drawn against the design concept of a composite system. The importance of hydraulic power in control of the S. S. T. is discussed and a recommendation presented for earlier attention to the hydraulics area by the ultimate operators of the S. S. T. than has been traditional in the preliminary design phase of transports.