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Airbus To 3-D Print Airframe Structures
Originally published by Graham Warwick for Aviation Week & Space Technology on January 11th 2017 Airbus is installing a large additive-manufacturing machine at a production site in France to 3-D-print titanium aircraft structural parts for its aircraft. The EBAM...
Precision Agriculture and Aerospace
What do Precision Agriculture and Aerospace have in common? On December 13th, 2016, about 100 farm entrepreneurs, technology advisors, interested sector development people and others, gathered at Southport Manitoba to see how much the two sectors of Agriculture and...
U of M Engineering Capstone Project
EnviroTREC ready to send U of M Engineering Capstone Project back up north! EnviroTREC and its sponsors supported a U of Manitoba Engineering Capstone project for the fall of 2016. The purpose of this project was to direct sunlight to the turbine blades, to support a...
Designing an Electric Plane for NASA
To win a competition, a Georgia Tech student devised a fuel-cell plane to rival today’s best-selling small aircraft Originally published by Tom Neuman for IEEE Spectrum on May 24h 2016 If you fly one of today’s small piston-powered planes, you will burn many gallons...
Lufthansa takes delivery of the world's first Airbus A320neo
Originally published by Lufthansa Group on February 12th 2016 Lufthansa, Airbus and Pratt & Whitney holding a delivery ceremony in Hamburg – First scheduled A320neo flights with better fuel efficiency and more passenger comfort achieved through quieter engines -...
New Metal Alloys Are Shaking up Aerospace
Improved simulation and analysis tools are helping develop more and better once-exotic alloys, plus good old aluminum, for lighter aerospace designs with less waste. by Ann R. Thryft, Senior Technical Editor, Materials & Assembly. Originally published in...
Rolls Readies First A330neo Flight-Test Engine
Originally published by Guy Norris for Aviation Week on May 30th 2016. Less than two years after committing to developing the Trent 7000 for the reengined Airbus A330neo, Rolls-Royce has completed first ground tests on the initial powerplant and is preparing to...
Rolls-Royce Builds Next-Gen Advance Demo Engine
by Guy Norris, originally published in Aviation Week on May 19th 2016 Parts for Rolls-Royce’s next-generation Advance demonstrator are coming together for an initial run later this year, marking the first concrete steps away from the RB.211 architecture that has been...
Pratt & Whitney Ships First Modified A320neo Engines
by Guy Norris, originally published on May 24th 2016 on Aviation Daily LOS ANGELES—Pratt & Whitney has confirmed that the first engines incorporating hardware modifications to speed up the start time of the PW1100G geared turbofan have shipped to Airbus for...
Bombardier scores big deal with Delta, federal aid request still outstanding
by Ross Marowits for The Canadian Press, re-posted by the Winnipeg Free Press. Originally published on April 28th 2016 MIRABEL, Que. - Bombardier received a major boost Thursday after Delta Air Lines agreed to buy up to 125 CSeries planes, a blockbuster deal that...