To expand worldwide market presence Sky Power GmbH welcomes a new sales team member. Edward Weston-Davies is an established sales specialist for Wankel engines in the UAS-Industry. Continue reading
Category Archives: Aircraft Propulsion & Energy
Collins Aerospace Unveils $50M Electric Power Systems Lab
Collins Aerospace Systems executives revealed plans for The Grid—the industry’s most advanced electric power systems lab. Collins Aerospace will use the high-power, high-voltage lab to design and test systems like high-power generators for the next generation of more electric aircraft, including commercial, military, business aviation, UAV and urban air mobility platforms. Collins Aerospace is a unit of United Technologies Corp. Continue reading
Northwest UAV to Open Flight, Analysis, & System Test (FAST) Range
Northwest UAV has announced the official launch of their Flight, Analysis, and System Test (FAST) UAV Range, with inaugural customer flights to begin in April 2019. Through the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Northwest UAV has been granted a Certificate of Authorization (COA) by the FAA to operate its own test range under the Pan-Pacific UAS Complex. Continue reading
Schiebel to Equip S-100 Camcopter with New Engine
Austrian unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) manufacturer Schiebel is developing a new JP-5-powered heavy fuel engine for its S-100 Camcopter after its initial choice of heavy fuel engine failed to meet endurance requirements set by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Continue reading
Trackwise Ships 26 Meter Flexible Printed Circuit for UAV
Trackwise has shipped a 26-metre long multilayer flexible printed circuit (FPC), believed to be the longest ever produced, for distributing power and control signals across the wings of a solar-powered, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The circuit is one of over fifty supplied by Trackwise into this vehicle. Continue reading
Sky Power Receives ISO 9001:2015 Certification
Highest quality, excellent customer care and an efficient, sustainable, lean manufacturing process in accordance with the Lean Production approach are the focus of the UAS engine manufacturer Sky Power GmbH from Germany. This has now been confirmed with the successful ISO certification. Continue reading
First Flight for China’s Energy Battery-Powered UAV
The China-developed new energy battery-powered demonstration unmanned aerial vehicle, known as LQ-H, has conducted a successful maiden flight. Continue reading
First Flight for Drone-sized Electric Aircraft
Case Western Reserve University professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering Vikas Prakash—along with state government and private partners—launched an otherwise unremarkable, single-propeller fiberglass airplane into the skies at Springfield-Beckley Municipal Airport and waited to see how long it could fly before running out of juice. Continue reading