The USN is upgrading its IRST systems | JAS-39: Nearing operational use | Nigeria order JF-17s from Pakistan

https://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/the-usn-is-upgrading-its-irst-systems-jas-39-nearing-operational-use-nigeria-order-jf-17s-from-pakistan-040955/

Tiny gyroscope the size of a grain of rice could help shrink gadgets even further

The electronics inside consumer gadgets are often miniaturized versions of bigger components – like phone cameras, for instance – and that applies to the gyroscopes used to help a device orientate itself in 3D space. Now scientists have worked out a way of making these gyroscopes much, much smaller.

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https://newatlas.com/tiny-optical-gyroscope-grain-of-rice/56976/

EasyJet makes progress with electric aircraft plan

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-easyjet-ceo-electric/easyjet-expects-to-be-flying-electric-planes-by-2030-idUSKCN1N31PS

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/29/reuters-america-easyjet-makes-progress-with-electric-aircraft-plan.html


https://www.businesstraveller.com/business-travel/2018/10/22/heathrow-targets-flights-with-electric-planes-by-2030/


https://theweek.com/articles/803861/future-air-travel-electric

https://mashable.com/feature/electric-airplanes-future-flight/?europe=true#ItZ2wUoUDZq7

Sixth upgraded AB212 delivered to Spanish Navy | Air Forces Monthly

https://airforcesmonthly.keypublishing.com/2018/10/29/sixth-upgraded-ab212-delivered-to-spanish-navy/

Boeing Is Developing A New High-Speed compound Apache-like attack helicopter

https://www.janes.com/article/84079/boeing-testing-high-speed-apache-concept

Russian high-speed helicopter shows Western design influences – expert

https://defence-blog.com/news/russian-high-speed-helicopter-shows-western-design-influences-expert.html

Mesh-less simulation: Altair announces the acquisition of SIMSOLID, game-changing simulation technology for designers, design engineers, and simulation analysts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-abyd7ELkpo



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Zv3-SdJBJo


press release


Altair Acquires SIMSOLID

Game-Changing Simulation Technology for Designers, Design Engineers, and Simulation Analysts



TROY, Mich. – - Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR) has acquired SIMSOLID, a company founded by asking a simple question: “Why does the geometry used in the Design and Structural Simulation worlds have to be so different?”

SIMSOLID works on full-fidelity CAD assemblies to provide fast, accurate, and robust structural simulation without requiring geometry simplification, cleanup, or meshing. Its underlying technology is based largely on the work of Dr. Victor Apanovitch, a former professor at Belarus Polytechnic University and the cofounder of SIMSOLID Corporation.

“We believe SIMSOLID is a revolutionary technological breakthrough which will have a profound impact for product design," said James Scapa, Altair’s Founder, Chairman, and CEO, “It’s incredibly fast, accurate, and robust and we believe a game changer for our industry."

The SIMSOLID computational engine is a commercial implementation of novel and unpublished mathematics based on extensions to the theory of external approximations. SIMSOLID controls solution accuracy using multi-pass adaptive analysis, making it extremely fast and memory efficient. Large and complex assemblies can be solved rapidly even on laptop computers.

Dr. Uwe Schramm, Altair’s Chief Technical Officer, notes that, “We are very serious about solution accuracy. Others have tried to accelerate the interface between CAD and simulation by degrading the mathematical robustness. It is our feeling that by rapidly moving forward with the methods in SIMSOLID and expanding them across applications we can have a real effect on how design gets done while maintaining our high standards for computational excellence.”

To learn more about SIMSOLID, hear executives and technologists discuss more in the video below, and register for an upcoming introductory SIMSOLID webinar or contact a regional representative at www.altair.com/SIMSOLID.

Boeing Opens New Aircraft Part Factory in Sheffield

http://boeing.mediaroom.com/news-releases-statements?item=130324

Boeing Awarded $204 Million Contract for F/A-18 Super Hornet, Growler Modifications

http://boeing.mediaroom.com/news-releases-statements?item=130325

In-Flight Data, senseFly collaborate on urban BVLOS project

 http://uasmagazine.com/articles/1941/in-flight-data-sensefly-collaborate-on-urban-bvlos-project

Japan Pencils In 2025 Future Fighter Flight

Japanese program planners hope the country's next fighter will make its first flight in 2025, local researchers believe, although separate reports put this target in doubt.

read more

http://aviationweek.com/awindefense/japan-pencils-2025-future-fighter-flight

Spirit AeroSystems Sidelines Asco Acquisition

http://aviationweek.com/awin-only/spirit-aerosystems-sidelines-asco-acquisition

Sikorsky receives multi-million maintenance deal | UK criticised over Wedgetail deal | Italy cuts defense budget, slashes NH-90 acquisition

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Sikorsky receives multi-million maintenance deal | UK criticised over Wedgetail deal | Italy cuts defense budget, slashes NH-90 acquisition // Defense Industry Daily
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/sikorsky-receives-multi-million-maintenance-deal-uk-criticised-over-wedgetail-deal-italy-cuts-defense-budget-slashes-nh-90-acquisition-040944/

Racer high-speed VTOL demonstrator passes preliminary design review milestone

Press Release

Airbus Helicopters continues to progress with the development of its Racer (Rapid And Cost-Efficient Rotorcraft) technology demonstrator, funded by European Union’s H2020 framework through the Clean Sky 2 program, and aiming to provide the best trade-off between speed, cost-efficiency, sustainability and mission performance.

After the validation of the demonstrator’s aerodynamic configuration last year, key subsystems have now successfully passed their preliminary design review (PDR) giving way to the launching of first components manufacture. Final assembly of the prototype is planned to start in Q4 2019.

“I want to thank all of our European partners for the excellence of their work and for their commitment in this fantastic project”, said Tomasz Krysinski, Head of Research & Innovation at Airbus Helicopters. “The PDR marks a major achievement for the Racer program as it allows to freeze interfaces and 3D definitions of the main subsystems, prior to detailed design and manufacture of key components.”

Long-lead items are the first ones to be manufactured. Airbus Helicopters teams already launched production of the lateral drive shaft, one of the Racer’s most innovative components. Among key subsystems, Italy’s Avio Aero, a GE Aviation Business, is launching procurement and manufacturing for the aircraft’s lateral gear boxes housing, while Hamble UK based GE Aviation Integrated Systems is taking care of the wing’s titanium cradle part. Romania’s INCAS/Romaero has already started manufacturing the Racer’s composite side panel and Spain’s Aernnova the tail parts primary structure.

Together with its partners, Airbus Helicopters is currently refining the content of the future Racer flight demonstration in Clean Sky 2 which will begin in 2020 and include about 200 flight hours. The first part will focus on the progressive opening of the flight envelope and on assessing key performance objectives as well as speed, handling qualities, stability and aerodynamics. The second phase will aim at demonstrating the aircraft’s suitability to carry out potential missions where increased speed and efficiency would bring significant added value, such as emergency medical services (EMS), search & rescue (SAR) and private transport. This second flight testing phase will also allow to mature low-noise flight procedures, unique to the Racer demonstrator formula.

More info:

https://www.airbus.com/newsroom/stories/Racer-for-the-layman.html

Space radiation would be likely to kill or severely weaken astronauts long before they reached Mars

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2018/10/01/astronauts-might-not-have-stomach-mission-mars/

Nasa 'fixes' Hubble malfunction

Nasa believes it has fixed a malfunction with the Hubble telescope which threatened to limit the orbiting observatory's performance. Earlier this month, one of Hubble's gyros - needed to point the spacecraft - failed, forcing controllers to place the telescope in "safe mode" - where it operates w...

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These Wasp-Like Drones Lift Heavy Loads With Their Bellies

You might know wasps for their ability to brainwash cockroaches or inflict one of the most painful stings on Earth—one so powerful that the actual scientific advice to victims is to just lie down and scream until it passes. Lesser-known is the wasp's superlative ability to carry loads that are …

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Behind the supersonic rise and fall of the Concorde, 15 years after its final flight

Now NASA and Lockheed Martin are trying to bring supersonic flight back to the masses. Here's how the typical storyline of technology goes: something new is invented, then it becomes old, and then we replace it with a more advanced version. But in rare instances tech is so advanced that we're not...

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This tiny, laser-powered RoboFly could sniff out forest fires and gas leaks

Researchers hope the mechanical bug could help scientists save the climate. This is one flying insect you don't want to swat. It doesn't bite, sting, or spread disease and someday it could be a life- and climate-saver. In time, it could survey crops, detect wildfires, poke around in disaster rubb...

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Black widow spiders could teach nanomaterial experts a thing or two

It appears that spiders beat us to the age of nanomaterials by about 300 million years, spinning nanoparticles into strong yet stretchy threads far beyond our modern manufacturing capabilities. But now we're trying to catch up, studying their secrets using advanced technology of our own. Spider s...

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