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Aerospace gear company brings its EDM in-house
Aldershot-based company, FT Gearing,supplies the global defence and aerospace sectors with gears, miniature gearboxes and safety critical components for wing surface actuators, engine controls, instrumentation and fuel pumps. A few years ago, the manufacturer tried broaching the bore profiles in steel worm shafts to transmit the drive to thrust reversers, but the length-to-diameter ratios were too high and the tools broke frequently.
Geo Kingsbury becomes Tier 1 member of AMRC
Located at the University of Sheffield’s Rotherham facility, an additional company has been appointed a tier 1 partner by the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre with Boeing.The new member is Geo Kingsbury, whose managing director Richard Kingsbury now sits on the research centre's board of directors.
Pace of technology has created an emerging anti-drone market
As unmanned technologies continue to develop at a rapid rate, both nefarious actors and governments have become aware of the possibilities presented by these technological developments and the need to mitigate them. As a result the counter-drone industry is now firmly emerging as its own standalone security industry.
Cranfield to host new £65m digital aviation centre
A consortium of industry, government and academic partners are building a new £65m digital aviation research facility at Cranfield University.The Digital Aviation Research and Technology Centre (DARTeC) will focus on emerging aerospace challenges such as the integration of drones into civilian airspace, embedding technology into airport infrastructure, and providing self-sensing capabilities for aircraft.
MAKS celebrates 25 years at premier gathering for aviation insiders
Russia’s grand showcase of aviation technology, opened on the 18th July in Zhukovsky near Moscow. ACS has captured exclusive images of the MiG-35, Russia’s 4th-generation multi-role fighter, the Mi-8AMTSH-VA twin-engine Arctic helicopter (known as 'Terminator'), unmanned helicopter VRT300, primary trainer aircraft Yak-152, and the twin-engine short-range aircraft L-410 Turbolet.
The future of engineering demands diversity
There are current changes taking place in the science and technology landscape that are like nothing we have ever seen before; or actually, that we have seen since the industrial revolution over 200 years ago.With International Women in Engineering Daytaking place last week, Steven Gillard, Head of Government Affairs at Boeing UK & Ireland talks about the future of diversity in engineering.
Companies come together and commit to tackling gender crisis
CEO’s and senior leaders from some of the UK’s top engineering companies are joining the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in calling for urgent action from the top to address the shortage of women in UK engineering, to mark International Women in Engineering Day.Women currently account for only 9% of the UK’s engineering workforce, yet 63% of UK engineering employers do not have gender diversity initiatives in pla...
Mouldmaker chooses bridge-type machining centre
As precision mould manufacturer and injection moulding specialist BM Injection was looking to replace an ageing, 3-axis, vertical-spindle machining centre of C-frame design back in the autumn of 2016, the company had three main requirements for the new machine.It needed to be of bridge construction for improved rigidity and have a nominal one-metre X-axis to provide extra capacity. It also had to be able to compensate for fluctuations in temperat...
Drones can safely stay in the air for five days
A team of MIT engineers has come up with a much less expensive UAV design that can hover for longer durations to provide wide-ranging communications support. The researchers designed, built, and tested a UAV resembling a thin glider with a 24-foot wingspan. The vehicle can carry 10 to 20 pounds of communications equipment while flying at an altitude of 15,000 feet.
2016 Boeing Performance Excellence Award won by Altair
The product development services division from Altair ProductDesign has received a 2016 BoeingPerformance Excellence Award.The Boeing Company issues the award annually to recognise suppliers who have achieved superior performance.