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The Metallic Materials Properties Development and Standardization MMPDS-2024 supersedes MMPDS-23 and prior editions of the MMPDS Handbook as well as all editions of MIL-HDBK-5, Metallic Materials and Elements for Aerospace Vehicle Structures Handbook that were maintained by the U.S. Air Force. The last edition, MIL-HDBK-5J was cancelled by the U.S. Air Force in March 2006. This document contains design information on the mechanical and physical properties of metallic materials and joints commonly used in aircraft and aerospace vehicle structures. All information contained in this Handbook has been reviewed and approved using a standardized process. The development and ongoing maintenance process involves certifying agencies, including the FAA, DoD, and NASA, and major material suppliers and material users worldwide. The information and procedures in this Handbook are continuously reviewed and modified or removed as determined to be appropriate.

This first edition of Volume II publishes the framework for generating and analyzing the data so that material sponsors can generate the right data, knowing how it will be analyzed by the Battelle Memorial Institute. MMPDS-2024 Volume II Process Intensive Materials and Joining Technologies does not currently have any material properties, focusing on additive manufacturing of metallic materials. MMPDS-2024 Volume II is brand new and will be focused on non-conventional processes and will be published each year moving forward. Volume I: Conventional Materials and Joint Allowables.

This ARP outlines recommended practices to quantify the concentrations of a subset of bleed air contaminant marker compounds on an aircraft propulsion engine or APU prior to delivery and installation on civil and military aircraft. Testing is specified during steady state (non-transient) operation only, in a ground level test bed.

Digital Twinning and Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information Aitiip Integrates Freeform Injection Molding to Lower Weight and Reduce Production Costs Image Sensors and Cameras Based on Colloidal Quantum Dots for Defense Applications How SpaceVPX is Influencing the Design of Next Generation Spacecraft Avionics Pioneering Space Communication with Terrestrial Know-How NASA's Optical Communications Demo Transmits Data Over 140 Million Miles NRL Research Physicists Explore Fiber Optic Computing Using Distributed Feedback Researchers introduce a fiber-optic computing architecture based on temporal multiplexing and distributed feedback that performs multiple convolutions on the input data in a single layer A New Approach to Assessing the Quality of Aerospace Components A sensing technology that can assess the quality of components in fields such as aerospace could transform UK industry New Research on Noise Reduction for Next Generation Aircraft Engines The mystery of how futuristic aircraft embedded engines, featuring an energy-conserving arrangement, make noise has been solved by researchers at the University of Bristol.

Modern combat aircraft demands efficient maintenance strategies to ensure operational readiness while minimizing downtime and costs. Innovative approaches using Digital Twining models are being explored to capture inter system behaviors and assessing health of systems which will help maintenance aspects. This approach employs advanced deep learning protocols to analyze the intricate interactions among various systems using the data collected from various systems. The research involves extensive data collection from sensors within combat aircraft, followed by data preprocessing and feature selection, using domain knowledge and correlation analysis. Neural networks are designed for individual systems, and hyper parameter tuning is performed to optimize their performance. By combining those outputs during the model integration phase, an overall health assessment of the aircraft can be generated.

Their application as radar absorbers has gained widespread recognition, particularly in modern stealth technology, where their main role is to minimize the radar cross-section (RCS) of military assets. Conventional radar absorber design is tedious because of its time-consuming, computationally intensive, iterative nature, and demand for a high level of expertise.

One promising application is for last-mile (and middle-mile) military transport and logistics, which can complement current mission capabilities and enhance operational readiness. ...With the dynamic and varying global challenges facing military operations, eVTOL aircraft can offer timely, on-demand, and potentially cost-effective aerial mobility components to the overall solution. ...Current eVTOL aircraft may not have the payload capacity for aerial transportation of heavy equipment or a large volume of supplies, but—for targeted missions—they can be valuable in select military applications. However, some challenges need to be addressed before identified capabilities and benefits can be realized at scale.

Explaining MOSA from the Team that Led the Army Aviation Mission Computing Environment Task Order What's the Best DC Motor for Your Commercial Aerospace Application? Aerospace Production: Overcoming Challenges in Composite Machining Understanding the Limits of Artificial Intelligence for Predictive Maintenance Pushing the Limits: Engineering Advanced RF Interconnects to Meet the Challenges of Hypersonic Missile Development Expanding Possibilities for Superconducting Qubits With Niobium Researchers Help Robots Navigate Efficiently in Uncertain Environments A new algorithm reduces travel time by identifying shortcuts a robot could take on the way to its destination.

Sustainability is both an ethical responsibility and business concern for the aerospace industry. Military and commercial avionics developers have pushed toward a common standard for interfaces, computing platforms, and software in hopes of having “reusability” and reducing weight with backplane computing architectures which, in theory, would support commonality across aircraft systems. ...The integrated modular avionics (IMA) and military Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) standards are two such examples. They emerged to support common computing architectures for reuse and sustainability concepts, from the beginning of aircraft development to the sundown or mortality phase.

This SAE Aerospace Information Report (AIR) lists military and industry specifications, standards, recommended practices, and information reports applicable to aerospace hydraulic and pneumatic systems and components.

This SAE Aerospace Standard (AS) provides the general performance, design, installation, test, development, and quality assurance requirements for the flight control related functions of the Vehicle Management Systems (VMS) of military piloted aircraft. It also provides specification guidance for the flight control interfaces with other systems and subsystems of the aircraft.

Two low-cetane number fuels were studied: a low-cetane number alcohol-to-jet (ATJ) sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) with a derived cetane number (DCN) of 17.4 and a binary blend of ATJ with F24 (Jet-A fuel with military additives, DCN 45.8) with a blend DCN of 25.9 (25 vol.% F24, 75 vol.% ATJ). A pilot injection mass sweep (3.5-7.0 mg) with constant total injection mass and an injection dwell sweep (1.5-3.0 ms) with fixed main injection timing was performed.

Aerospace vehicles include manned and unmanned airplanes, helicopters, lighter-than-air vehicles, missiles, and external pods. This document does not apply to wiring inside of airborne electronic equipment but shall apply to wiring externally attached to such equipment.

This SAE Aerospace Information Report (AIR) provides the hydraulic and flight-control system designer with the various design options and techniques that are currently available to enhance the survivability of military aircraft. The AIR addresses the following major topics: a Design concepts and architecture (see 3.2, 3.5, and 3.6) b Design implementation (see 3.3, 3.6, and 3.7) c Means to control external leakage (see 3.4) d Component design (see 3.8)

Aiming for achieving the trusted operation of a military robotic vehicle under contested environments, we introduce a new cyber-physical system based on the concepts of deep learning convolutional neural networks (CNNs).

The process detailed within this document is generic and applies to the entire end-to-end health management capability, covering both on-board and on-ground elements, in both commercial and military applications throughout their lifecycle. This ARP addresses a gap in guidance related to usage of ground-based health management equipment for airworthiness credit, ensuring a level of integrity commensurate with the potential aircraft-level consequences of the relevant failure conditions.

This document includes recommendations of installations of adequate landing and taxiing lighting systems in aircraft of the following categories: a Single engine personal and/or liaison type b Light twin engine c Large multiengine propeller d Large multiengine turbojet e Military high-performance fighter and attack f Helicopter g Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing (EVTOL) and Urban Air Mobility (UAM)

Some successful applications include: Aircraft engine combustor development rig tests (aviation jet fueled) Stationary source combustor development rig tests (natural gas and diesel fueled) Afterburning military engine tests (aviation jet fueled) Internal combustion aircraft engine diagnostics (AVGAS fueled) Each application may be characterized by very different measured emissions levels (parts per million versus percent by volume) but this common approach solves the same basic combustion chemical equation.