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COMMERCIAL AVIATION

Video: An Autothrottle for Turboprops

A new autothrottle system enables pilots to fly to a certain torque level or airspeed for any portion of a flight, including takeoff and go-around. Aviation Week tests it out.

DEFENSE

Unmanned Wingmen And Cruise Missiles Need Low-cost Engines

Calls are growing for powerplants to be developed specifically to meet the price and performance needs of lower-cost unmanned combat aircraft.

 

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EAA AirVenture 2017

 

EAA Embraces Drones, New Technologies

The Experimental Aviation Association has always been known as a cradle for innovation, but is that spark now being overshadowed by massive corporate spending on private space, electric propulsion and automated personal transportation?

 

This Doc’s No Dwarf: Flying Inside The Biggest Bomber Of World War II

The world’s second flying B-29 Superfortress completed a 17-year journey with its arrival at EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Aviation Week hitched a ride.

 

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Robert Lightfoot Kicks off 2017 AIAA SPACE Forum
Dealing with Complex Systems panel session follows with David A. Dress (NASA LRC), William H. Gerstenmaier (NASA), Michael Ryschkewitsch (APL), Richard Cook (JPL), Walter Cunningham (Apollo VII Astronaut), and David Giger (SpaceX). Details
 
 

China’s Ehang to Launch Commercial Fly-by-iPad

The vehicle currently occupies an awkward spot as being too heavy to fit the Federal Aviation Administration’s 55-lb weight limit for commercial drones, yet it cannot qualify as an experimental aircraft because it is autonomous and has no pilot.

 

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