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Leader in lightweight metal industry invests in R&D of materials, processes and design tools for additive manufacturing of complex metal parts, with aerospace demand taking the lead.
The company behind the Meteor air-to-air missile’s throttleable ducted ram-rocket propulsion, Germany’s Bayern-Chemie, says a feasibility study shows the technology could power a Mach 5-plus lower-tier ballistic-missile interceptor.
Its next X-plane may still be on the drawing board, but NASA is already learning the challenges it will face building and testing the aircraft, which will demonstrate distributed electric propulsion.
Commercial aviation is justifiably proud of its achievement in driving down fuel burn since the dawn of the jet age, but has it done all that it could?
Air-to-air photography and an image-processing technique that shows shock waves of a supersonic aircraft in flight will help validate design tools for low-boom demonstrator.
Boeing is testing a deployable wingtip feature, the first of its kind to enter service on any commercial airliner, that will increase the 777X's overall span for flight and retract for ground operations.
The country’s efforts to develop an indigenous sounding rocket and nanosat launch capability advance, as Nammo plans a suborbital test flight of a new hybrid rocket motor.
As satellites and their antennas get bigger, they become harder to launch. Spacecraft-maker Space Systems/Loral thinks on-orbit self-assembly, reconfiguration and repair using an onboard robotic arm could make satellites more powerful and more flexible over their lifetimes.
Former Sikorsky and Cessna presidents, Piper chief designer lead effort to develop ducted-fan vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft for point-to-point executive travel.
Has Lockheed Martin found the right mix of advanced design and conventional thinking with its Hybrid Wing Body airlifter concept? Wind-tunnel tests confirm its efficiency promise and a demonstrator is on the cards.
Highly accurate performance tests on Lockheed Martin’s HWB airlifter design stress the National Transonic Facility’s capability to reproduce near-flight-like aerodynamic conditions.
Working on a shoestring budget, NASA Armstrong’s “model lab” is testing potentially game-changing aerodynamic innovations as well as designs that could one day be the first aircraft to fly over Mars
