Dover’s C-5M Engine Tool Could Cut Rigging Labor From 200 Hours to 16
Two hundred labor-hours versus 16: that is the potential maintenance reduction behind a six-gauge engine-rigging set developed at Dover Air…
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TI’s Dual-Axis EV Current Sensor Cuts Error Without Busbar Modifications
Coreless current sensing presents traction-inverter engineers with a mechanical contradiction: removing a magnetic core can reduce size and weight, but…
Jaunt Chooses Passive-Cooled Drone Batteries to Reduce Cooling Mass and Complexity
Removing pumps, coolant lines and other liquid-cooling hardware can simplify an aircraft battery installation, but it also shifts more responsibility…
Whisper Aero’s First Powered Flights Validate Integration, Not Yet Noise Claims
Whisper Aero has moved its electric ducted-fan program from ground endurance work and unpowered gliding into powered flight. Disclosed in…
Tesla Patent Concentrates 3D Perception Detail Where Driving Scenes Need It
An automotive occupancy network faces a basic scaling problem: make its three-dimensional grid twice as fine in every direction, and…
Elroy Air Cargo Drone Flight Gives FAA Integration Data, Not Certification
Elroy Air’s Chaparral has completed the first remotely piloted aircraft test flight under the Federal Aviation Administration’s electric vertical-takeoff integration…
UC San Diego Humanoids Complete Two Surgeries, but Motion Limits Block Clinical Use
A robot shaped to work in a human operating room still has to meet performance standards set by machines designed…
Beehive’s 40-Part Frenzy Engine Faces a 10,000-Unit Manufacturing Test
Beehive Industries has reduced its Frenzy turbojet to roughly 40 parts, including bolts and washers, but consolidation alone does not…
Molicel P70X Targets Hybrid Power Pulses With 900-Watt Five-Second Output
Hybrid batteries do not spend their working lives simply charging to full and discharging toward empty. They repeatedly absorb and…
ORNL Prints Three-Arm Nuclear Vessel, but Qualification Remains the Hard Part
Printing the shape is not the same as proving the pressure boundary. Oak Ridge National Laboratory has built a roughly…
Army’s $46 Million Chaparral Contract Shifts Focus to Field-Ready Autonomy
Elroy Air’s Chaparral cargo drone is moving beyond the basic question of whether an autonomous vertical-takeoff aircraft can transport a…
Modified Gulfstream IV Returns After Seven-Year Overhaul for 30-Year Mission
A Gulfstream IV has returned to MIT Lincoln Laboratory after a seven-year conversion that turned the business jet into a…
Phenom 300EV Gains Triple Approval With Automated Emergency Landing
Garmin Emergency Autoland is designed to turn a pilot-incapacitation emergency into a controlled diversion and landing. Activated automatically when the…
FAA Orders Recurring Boeing 787 Wing Inspections for 17 U.S. Jets
The Federal Aviation Administration has turned a Boeing 787 manufacturing concern into a recurring maintenance requirement for 17 aircraft on…
i-charging’s 1.5-Megawatt Charger Earns North American Electrical Safety Certification
i-charging has obtained Intertek ETL certification for its i-light high-power DC charger, clearing an important equipment-safety requirement for planned use…
Coalition Seeks Pause as Million-Satellite Plans Strain Split Federal Review
The central engineering-policy problem with orbital data centers is not confined to any single satellite. It is deciding where one…
Air Force Flies C-17 With Robot-Formed Panel After Tooling Shortage
The difficult part of replacing one damaged C-17 nose panel was not forming the metal. It was justifying the dedicated…
Rivian Plans 10 Megawatt-Hours of Factory Storage From 100-Plus Used Batteries
Before more than 100 Rivian vehicle batteries can help power an automotive factory, they must become one coordinated stationary system….