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Smart Skies: How IoT is transforming aircraft maintenance and operations

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Boeing’s approach emphasizes component health monitoring, using onboard sensors to continuously track critical components. For instance, Qantas uses the Airplane Health Management (AHM) system to take predictive maintenance actions that enhance efficiency and lower operating costs.

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Examining over 100 years of flight automation and the history of the autopilot

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Nowadays, modern aircraft are equipped with systems that can not only fly the aircraft but can also perform fully automated take-offs and landings and can even provide protection systems in the event of unusual flight situations that threaten the safety of the airplane and its occupants.

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Heart Aerospace unveils Heart X1 full-scale hybrid-electric demonstrator

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Heart Aerospace has revealed its first full-scale demonstrator aircraft for the ES-30, a regional hybrid-electric airplane. The demonstrator, named Heart Experimental 1 (Heart X1), is a 30-seat airplane with a 32-meter wingspan built at Heart’s facilities in Gothenburg.

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How Tech Made the Rotax a Monster

Plane and Pilot

Any airplane developed since the early 1950s needing around 160 hp was probably penned with this engine in mindor its slightly larger but fundamentally similar O-360. Specifically, Rotaxs approach to putting 160 hp to the prop flange is fundamentally different from Lycomings. And what Rotax doesnt want to buy, it can create in house.

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Why are leading aerostructures suppliers flocking to the eVTOL industry?  

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But heres the problem: despite the pioneer energy that pervades this segment of the industry, making airplanes in 2024 is nothing like it was during the time of the Wright Brothers. Joby Aviation But Jobys more vertically integrated (and capital intensive) approach is the exception rather than the rule.

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A Bristol Bulldog Biplane Fighter is Once Again in the Sky

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It actually flew fine, and it flies like a normal airplane. “If you view the video of the first flight on YouTube ( LINK ), you’ll see the airplane does some wiggling around, but most of that was done on purpose as I was trying to get the feel of it as fast as I could.” It is a terrible airplane for crosswinds.

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Energy considerations in aviation: How realistic are alternative energy forms?

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His innovative approach integrates infrastructure and movement processes into holistic CO2 and energy comparisons. Energy storage capacity of batteries When will there be airplanes that can be operated on electric power generated sustainably, i.e., wind -, solar -, or waterpower?This Differently. MWh (Megawatt hours).

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