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Aviation covers military and dual-use aircraft in detail: airframe design, propulsion, avionics, flight test campaigns and the maintenance burden that follows delivery. Reports track certification steps, sortie rates and known deficiencies. Intended for engineers, aircrew, procurement staff and readers who want an aircraft explained rather than photographed.

Aviation

Certifying Edison Aircraft

Edison Aerospace LLC has begun the process of registering its prototype aircraft with the Federal Aviation Administration , a big step on the path to delivering our first aircraft to new customers . The path to Experimental airworthiness certification involves registering the future aircraft and getting a tail number assigned

Nils Andersen
Aviation

Spray Performance Calculations and Tradeoffs

Aviation is , like all engineering pursuits , full of tradeoffs . You can fly farther but carry less payload and travel slower , or you can fly faster but burn much more fuel and lose some range . You can go supersonic with small , thin , wings ,

Nils Andersen
Aviation

F-16s arrive to be modified for autonomous testing

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE , Fla. ( AFNS ) -- VENOM-AFT is designed and funded to accelerate testing of autonomy software on crewed and uncrewed aircraft . VENOM-AFT complements the autonomy data and artificial intelligence experimentation proving ground at Eglin Air Force Base and informs the Collaborative Combat Aircraft program

Nils Andersen
Aviation

Air Force researchers design, build, fly autonomous aircraft in 24 hours

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE , Fla. ( AFNS ) -- In an open area of the Eglin Air Force Base range known as B-70 , a group of Air Force field grade officers and black-shirted innovators huddled together above an eight-pound model aircraft as they raced against their deadline to

Nils Andersen
Aviation

Airlift invention by Airmen saves Air Force time, money

WASHINGTON ( AFNS ) -- Imagine the chaos in this scenario : during an Air Force airlift mission to deliver mission-critical supplies , a cargo pallet slams into a rail system on an aircraft causing costly damage and impacting the mission . This very real problem has previously caused issues

Nils Andersen
Aviation

Commander, test pilots evaluate new electric aircraft

Geraghty complimented the aircraft , the quiet flight and how lightweight the Electro turned out to be . Instead of towing the 1,000-pound aircraft , Geraghty pushed it out to the flightline himself before the flight . He also added it was much easier to get in and out of

Nils Andersen
Aviation

Air Force exercises two Collaborative Combat Aircraft option awards

ARLINGTON , Va. ( AFNS ) -- The Department of the Air Force made the decision to continue funding Anduril and General Atomics for detailed designs , manufacture , and testing of production representative test articles under the Collaborative Combat Aircraft program . The companies not selected to build these

Nils Andersen