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Mar 23 | News
Airbus, Boeing, and Embraer signed a Memorandum of Understanding to work together on the development of drop-in, affordable aviation biofuels. The collaboration agreement supports the industry's multi-pronged approach to continuously reduce the industry's carbon emissions.
Jan 30 | News
Teams
from three of the top United States aerospace corporations have spent
the last year studying how to meet NASA’s sustainability goals for
cleaner, more efficient aircraft. Among the requirements that prompted
adventurous design work from the companies was a 50% reduction in fuel
consumption and a 75% reduction in harmful emissions.
11/8/2011 | News
Imagine controlling an airplane in flight just by holding your iPhone out in front of you: tilting it in the direction you want the plane to travel, or raising it to make the plane fly higher. Or tapping a point on a map on the screen, and having the plane automatically fly to the designated spot. Now, imagine if the plane itself were a continent away from where you're doing this iPhone-based controlling. What might seem like a figment of the imagination is actually fact.
10/31/2011 | News
On
Monday, more than 100 Boeing, NASA and state and federal officials
gathered in the massive empty former space shuttle hangar—Orbiting
Processing Facility No. 3—for the announcement of the first-of-its-kind
agreement allowing a private company to take over the government
property.
2/16/2011 | News
On
Sunday, Boeing unveiled its newest and largest passenger airplane, the
747-8 Intercontinental at the company’s factory in Everett, Wash. Its
red paint job was a departure from the usual Boeing blue, but the
40-year-old profile of the 747 is familiar. The revision indicates that
the 747 will likely be around when Boeing anticipates that aviation
biofuels will be ready for industry-wide use.
8/11/2010 | RD 100 Awards
Today’s large machine tools must be carefully
calibrated to perform increasingly complex tasks, but diagnosing errors can be
frustrating. A partnership led by Automated Precision Inc. has pioneered a methodology, Volumetric
Error Compensation (VEC), to
address the need for improving close tolerance and working accuracy.
4/21/2010 | News
Tomorrow, the military plans to launch an unmanned winged
spacecraft resembling a miniature space shuttle. A U.S. Air Force
official says
that depending on the success of this maiden flight, a second space
plane will
be contracted from Boeing’s Phantom Works. The X-37 was originally a
NASA
project. The test vehicle will spend nine months in orbit.
3/30/2010 | News
Exposing the airframe to the equivalent of 150% of the heaviest it is ever expected to see while in service is standard operating procedure during the development process for new aircraft. In the case of the 787 this week, the carbon-fiber wings were flexed upward about 25 feet, and appeared to withstand the test.
8/18/2009 | RDBlog
In the August 2009 issue of R&D Magazine, I wrote about some of the trends that are affecting the development strategies of developers of scientific software.
7/30/2009 | RD 100 Awards
Optimal Trajectories by Implicit Simulation program version 4 (OTIS4) was developed and refined by NASA Glenn Research Center (Cleveland, Ohio) and Boeing Research and Technology (Seattle, Wash.) to be a general purpose software program used to perform trajectory performance studies.
