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MGI engineering launches cargo eVTOL UAV development programme with autonomous technology demonstrator

MEM

Specialist consultancy company MGI Engineering has launched its Cargo UAV technology demonstrator programme. MGI is applying F1 development philosophies and mindset to the cargo eVTOL UAV market. MGI Engineering has been developing cargo eVTOL technologies for the past year, with the aim to provide these services to the wider industry.

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Forging the future of advanced composites

Manufacturer's Monthly

Billy Friend sat down with founder and director Joe Bryant to learn about the company’s ambitions to propel Australia into the upper echelon of advanced composites manufacturing. Fresh from university, Joe Bryant began his career as an aerospace engineer with Airbus, working on the company’s first composite helicopter, the ARH Tiger.

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Omni Tanker delivers liquid hydrogen storage project with Lockheed Martin

Manufacturer's Monthly

Australian composites manufacturer Omni Tanker , in collaboration with international aerospace giant Lockheed Martin and the University of New South Wales ( UNSW ), has developed a world-leading solution for the transport of cryogenic and liquid cargoes of hydrogen and helium, with support from the Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre ( AMGC ).

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Aerospace partnership offers sky high opportunities

AU Manufacturing

The partnership will focus on digitisation of aerospace composites, advanced manufacturing technologies and specialised simulation capabilities. The Aerostructures Innovation Research Hub (AIR Hub) at Swinburne University of Technology is partnering with the National Institute for Aerospace Research (NIAR) at Wichita State University.

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World-first drone to save lives in dangerous water rescues

AU Manufacturing

It can then be operated remotely to transport a payload of life-saving cargo to a stricken vessel or to people stranded in the water,” said Joe, an aerospace engineer. . The overall design and capabilities of SARGO TM are different to anything else on the market currently deployed by Marine SAR and Coast Guard aircraft. ABOUT AEROMECH .

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Nasa launches first mission to study a metal asteroid

E&T

The probe took off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida inside the cargo bay of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. The spacecraft will take six years to reach a metal-rich asteroid that could have been formed from the remains of an early planet’s core. Its journey has been estimated to be 2.2 billion miles long (3.5

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Method for 3D-printing strong stainless steel revealed with particle accelerator

E&T

For airliners, cargo ships, nuclear power plants and other critical technologies, strength and durability are essential. The authors mapped out how the crystal structure changed over the course of a print, revealing how certain factors they had control over - such as the composition of the powdered metal - influenced the process throughout.