Aerospace

Nanomaterials

Graphene-toughened composites

Are we getting closer to commercialized, and functional, nanotechnology?

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Aerospace

Virgin Galactic: After the crash

Although the official cause of the crash of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo is not yet determined, the evidence seems to indicate premature deployment of the feathering system as the culprit. Virgin Galactic is moving forward with assembly of the second SpaceShipTwo, with lessons learned from the accident surely to be applied.

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Sustainability

F-35 makes first arrested landing aboard aircraft carrier

An F-35C Lightning II carrier varient Joint Strike Fighter conducted its first arrested landing aboard an aircraft carrier on Nov. 3 off the coast of San Diego, Calif., USA.

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Infusion

FACC: Aerospace infusion pioneer

Although it’s “new” to aerospace, liquid resin infusion has been the focus of R&D at FACC (Ried im Innkreis) since 2001. “The issue,” said FACC’s aerostructures product development director Hermann Filsegger, “is in getting 100 percent wetout with no voids in a large part with this much complexity.” That’s not, by any means, an easy task.

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Aerospace

FACC timeline: Engineer-centric evolution

A short history of aerospace tier supplier FACC AG (Ried Im Innkreis, Austria).

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Aerospace

FACC AG: Aerocomposites Powerhouse

This pragmatic Austria-based innovator is pursuing lofty goals in an aerocomposites future full of opportunity.

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Aerospace

Solar-powered flight: Where it all began

A very short history of solar-powered flight.

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ATL/AFP

Spread-tow technology takes off

New, ultralight-areal-weight prepreg tapes form the thin-ply laminates will enable Solar Impulse 2’s sun-powered flight around the world.

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Aerospace

NASA announces two winners in “space taxi” competition

NASA reported on Sept. 16 that it has selected The Boeing Co. (Houston, Texas) and SpaceX (Hawthorne, Calif.) to develop spacecraft to transport U.S. crews to and from the International Space Station (ISS).

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PMI foam core outperforms honeycomb in infused nose landing gear doors

The results of Airbus (Toulouse, France) subsidiary Composite Technology Centre GmbH (CTC, Stade, Germany) studies in 2013 to find more productive but less costly methods of fabricating carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) sandwich constructions.

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