Will Be The Main Engine For NASA's SLS

With an eye toward future deep space missions, Aerojet Rocketdyne and NASA recently powered up the RS-25 main engine for the agency’s powerful heavy-lift Space Launch System (SLS) to its highest thrust levels yet.

Twelve Stopovers In Three Weeks Provides High Visibility For The Latest A350 XWB Jetliner Version

Airbus’ flight test A350-1000 jetliner is back home after a demonstration tour to Middle East and Asia-Pacific destinations, a three-week trip that underscored all the attributes this largest A350 XWB version brings in upsized efficiency, maximum reliability and unique passenger comfort for fast-growing regions of the global airline marketplace.

Develops CAD Design Tool For Automated Generation Of Bionic Components And Subsequent Output To Additive Manufacturing

About a year after the launch of the EU’s ground-breaking Bionic Aircraft project, CENIT reports concrete initial results. These include software for automated recognition of topologically optimized structures, an associated catalogue of parameterized bionic characteristics in CAD, and a tool for direct generation of file formats for 3D printing. 

Program Is The First In The United States

Tooling U-SME's partners ... the South Bay Workforce Investment Board and the Aero-Flex Unilateral Apprenticeship Committee ... have announced the successful registration of the first Aerospace Engineering Apprenticeship occupation in the U.S. Tooling U-SME, a provider of workforce and education development for the advanced manufacturing industry, is the sponsor of this new national learning program, which is the first registered apprenticeship in the U.S. for the engineering discipline.  

Company Recently Acquired By Air Medical Holdings Group

Guardian Flight LLC is the new rebranded name of the former Air Medical Resource Group (AMRG), headquartered in South Jordan, Utah, near Salt Lake City.

Will Showcase Next-Gen Solutions For The Commercial Helicopter Market In Las Vegas

Elbit Systems will showcase its Enhanced Flight Vision System (EFVS) Heli-ClearVision suite at the upcoming Helicopter Association International Heli-Expo 2018 exhibition, taking place in Las Vegas Convention Center, on February 27 till March 1.

San Diego Composites Recognized By The Agency

NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston has selected San Diego Composites (SDC) of San Diego, California, as 2017 Small Business Subcontractor of the Year for its support of NASA’s Orion spacecraft and the agency’s mission to send humans to the Moon and beyond.

A Subsidiary Since Its Creation In 2011, Company Now Fully Integrated Under The Airbus Brand

SIGNALIS, a subsidiary of Airbus since its creation in 2011, has been fully integrated into the Airbus CIS (Communications, Intelligence and Security) business becoming the Maritime Surveillance Center of Competences within Airbus Defense and Space from 3 January 2018.  The move is Airbus Defense and Space’s response to its growing interest in serving the maritime surveillance market as a whole.

Aero Linx: U.S. Air Mail Pioneers U.S. Air Mail Service website is dedicated to the men and women of the U.S. Air Mail Service, a little-remembered organization that laid the foundation for commercial aviation worldwide. With the cooperation of the U.S. Air Service, the U.S. Post Office flew the mail from 1918 until 1927. Air Mail Service pilots are the unsung heroes of early aviation.  In their frial Curtiss Jennies and postwar de Havillands, they battered wind, snow, and sleet to pioneer round-the-clock airmail service along the world's longest air route, the U. S. transcontinental.  In the process, thirty-four pilots lost their lives. Through profiles, photographs and historicl articles,

Runway Heading The magnetic direction that corresponds with the runway centerline extended, not the painted runway number. When cleared to “fly or maintain runway heading,” pilots are expected to fly or maintain the heading that corresponds with the extended centerline of the departure runway. Drift correction shall not be applied; e.g., Runway 4, actual magnetic heading of the runway centerline 044, fly 044.

“Increased thrust requirements for the RS-25 are just one of the many changes in the SLS rocket’s performance that will facilitate our nation’s deep space exploration goals and objectives. While we can analytically calculate engine performance and structural capabilities at these higher power levels, actually demonstrating that performance with an engine hot fire provides the added confidence that these engines will meet all specification requirements demanded of SLS.” Source: Dan Adamski, RS-25 program director at Aerojet Rocketdyne, commenting on Aerojet Rocketdyne and NASA having recently powered up the RS-25 main engine for the agency’s powerful heavy-lift Space Launch System (SLS) to its highest thru