Stanford computer scientists have developed an artificial intelligence system that enables robotic helicopters to teach themselves to fly difficult stunts by watching other helicopters perform the same maneuvers. The result is an autonomous helicopter than can perform a complete airshow of complex tricks on its own.

A new interactive Calculator for the calculation of composite stiffness has been developed. Simply input your micro-mechanical properties of the composite on the web page and the axial, A, coupling, B, and bending, D, matrices are calculated. This website provides a quick reference for Composite designers.
www.compositecalculator.com

United States consider Russian rocket engine RD-180 to be the best rocket engine on the world, claim RosCosmos officials.

RD-180 is a two-chamber variant of four-chamber kerosene engine RD-170. The engine owes better specific characteristics, than American analogues have, to closed circuit with reburning of exhaust generator gas in main combustion chambers.

The crew of the International space station finishes preparations for “Vsplesk” (“Burst”) experiment, results of which are expected to help in developing methods for real-time forecasting of earthquakes.

Finding the effective rigidities of an advanced composite wing can simplify the analysis considerably. The application of fibre-reinforced composite materials in the aerospace industry extends from commercial to military aircraft, such as the Boeing F18, B2 Stealth Bomber, AV-8B Harrier (Jones, 1998 and http://www.compositecalculator.com). The attractiveness of composites lies in their mechanical properties; such as weight, strength, stiffness, corrosion resistance, fatigue life. Composites are widely used for control surfaces such as ailerons, flaps, stabilizers, rudders, as well as rotary and fixed wings. That is why the analysis of composite structures is imperative for aerospace industry. The main advantage of composites is their flexibility in design. Mechanical properties of the laminate can be altered simply by changing the stacking sequence, fibre lay-up and thickness of each ply which leads to optimization in a design process.

To prevent catastrophic oscillatory failures in aircraft wings, a vibration analysis is imperative. A specific Circumferentially Asymmetric Stiffness Configuration is implemented and fully described in http://www.aeroway.ca/Taperedwing.htm

A new Dynamic Finite Element (DFE) formulation is developed to calculate the natural frequencies and modes of wings composed of advanced super light composite materials. This enhanced method provides highly accurate solutions compared to classical Finite Elements.

Aviation industry is marching towards the development of the next generation turbo fan engine and soon an eco friendly, noise-free and fuel efficient engine is no longer a dream

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A method to detect small cracks in a metal or homogeneous material in a non-destructive way by means of natural frequencies was first proposed by Adams et al (1978). He proposed that the crack size and location on a bar specimen could be found using natural frequencies of free vibration ignoring the natural modes all together. reference www.aeroway.ca

Gadget blog GearCrave, in their "first of a series 'Dream Job' Interviews," has a great back-and-forth with International Space Station astronaut and all-around-good-guy Clayton Anderson.