Can the Army create a universal ground control system for UAVs? The ability to use hundreds of comparatively cheap UAVs from different manufacturers has been a blessing to ground forces, who finally have the comprehensive aerial coverage they want. It can also be a curse. If each system has its own unique controller and vehicle – or worse, its own receiver and screen – the result will be chaos.
Enter AAI’s One System® ground control offerings, which are a step toward a more universal future. This Spotlight article covers the One System concept, its ongoing development, its current reach, and future technology initiatives and requirements that will affect UAV ground control…
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Sunday, May 17, 2009
A new material for rapid prototyping
CRP Technology has developed a new SLS powder: Windform® LX that goes to enrich the wide range of RP materials.
Windform® LX is a new polyamide-based material reinforced with new generation glass fibres whose good technical properties make it particularly suited for functional applications and finished complex parts. It is a naturally black powder and it is characterised by good UTS and stiffness as well as high level of resistance to temperature and good surface finish.
According to the current economic scenario CRP Technology has given birth to a material able to satisfy the needs for quality at good value.
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Windform® LX is a new polyamide-based material reinforced with new generation glass fibres whose good technical properties make it particularly suited for functional applications and finished complex parts. It is a naturally black powder and it is characterised by good UTS and stiffness as well as high level of resistance to temperature and good surface finish.
According to the current economic scenario CRP Technology has given birth to a material able to satisfy the needs for quality at good value.
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US Air Force to Test Scramjet Aircraft
The US Air Force has been developing an aircraft that employs an air-breathing scramjet engine, and hopes to run test flights in the fall of 2009. Officials hope the X-51 “Waverider” aircraft will provide high speed aircraft for reconnaissance or strike missions, and eventually the engines will be used for rockets to deploy satellites in space.
“The long-range goal of this for the Air Force is access to space,” said Charlie Brink, an Air Force Research Laboratory propulsion directorate official who manages the X-51 program from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.The first test flight of the X-51 will be on Oct. 27, 2009, launched from a B-52 aircraft with a missile booster to at least Mach 4.5, the minimum speed at which the air-breathing scramjet engine operates, before the scramjet kicks in and accelerates the vehicle to at least Mach 6 — six times the speed of sound.
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“The long-range goal of this for the Air Force is access to space,” said Charlie Brink, an Air Force Research Laboratory propulsion directorate official who manages the X-51 program from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.The first test flight of the X-51 will be on Oct. 27, 2009, launched from a B-52 aircraft with a missile booster to at least Mach 4.5, the minimum speed at which the air-breathing scramjet engine operates, before the scramjet kicks in and accelerates the vehicle to at least Mach 6 — six times the speed of sound.
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