Business-government
WBI crafts winning plan for high-performance power electronics
June 17, 2010
Thursday, June 17, 2010
DAYTON, Ohio – The Wright Brothers Institute (WBI) played a key role in a winning proposal for a $3 million Ohio Third Frontier Wright Project award to establish a Center for High Performance Power Electronics at the Ohio State University in Columbus, OH.
The Wright Project aims to help Ohio grab the lead in supplying a range of markets with a new family of electronic devices that can handle large power loads. The Center will leverage an Air Force need for high-performance power electronics in military aircraft.
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X-51A flight opened eyes, manager says
June 01, 2010
Watch video of X-51A Waverider flight (USAF)
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Last week's dramatic first test flight of the scramjet-powered X-51A Waverider "really made some people open their eyes" to the potential of the technology for future military weapons and space lift vehicles, an Air Force Research Laboratory program manager said today.
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AFRL's new lab focused on micro air vehicles
May 27, 2010
Air Force 2nd Lt. Danny Lacore holds a micro air
vehicle in AFRL's new MAV Indoor Flight Test Lab.
(Photo: timothy R. Gaffney)
Thursday, May 27, 2010
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Just one day after flying a revolutionary jet at the rocket-fast speed of 3,300 miles per hour, the Air Force Research Laboratory today cut the ribbon on a new facility where researchers will experiment with micro air vehicles no bigger – or faster – than birds.
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X-51A Waverider achieves hypersonic flight
May 26, 2010
Artist's concept of X-51A Waverider under a B-52
wing prior to its first hypersonic flight today,
May 26, 2010. (USAF)
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Demonstrating a technology that could lead to global-strike cruise missiles and airplane-like spacelift vehicles, the X-51 Waverider achieved hypersonic flight today with a revolutionary scramet engine, the Air Force said.
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UPDATED: AFRL's X-51A Waverider to fly on May 25
May 20, 2010
The X-51A Waverider is designed to ride on its own
shockwave at Mach 6. (USAF graphic)
UPDATE
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Today's planned launch of the X-51A Waverider
hypersonic jet was delayed for a day after an ocean
vessel entered the test range several hundred miles
off the Pacific coast, the Air Force announced this
afternoon.
A U.S. Navy P-3 aircraft supporting the test was
making a safety sweep over the Pacific Ocean test
range to check for shipping traffic shortly after
noon Eastern time (9 a.m. Pacific time)Tuesday when
its crew discovered a ship steaming in international
waters underneath a block of restricted airspace
located in the vicinity of the X-51A's potential
splashdown zone, the announcement said.
A B-52 from the Air Force Flight Test Center at
Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. was preparing to take
off with the X-51A mounted under its wing when the
mission was scrubbed due to the ship's presence.
Weather permitting, the X-51A will make its first
hypersonic flight attempt Wednesday, May 26.
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Korean firm selects Hartzell Propeller for new airplane
May 18, 2010
Artist's concept of KC-100 with Hartzell propeller.
(Image source: Hartzell)
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
PIQUA, Ohio – Korean Aerospace Industries has selected Hartzell Propeller to supply an advanced-technology propeller for a four-seat general aviation airplane it's developing for Korean and export markets.
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Springfield Air National Guard base to get new missions
May 08, 2010
An MQ-1 Predator armed with missiles over Iraq. (USAF/Tech. Sgt. Erik Gudmundson)
Saturday, May 8, 2010
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Ohio Air National Guard Base near Springfield has brighter prospects for the future with word that it will get new missions, including MQ-1 Predator aircraft, after its work of training Dutch F-16 fighter pilots ends this year.
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Boeing: Tanker win would bring Ohio jobs
April 29, 2010
Illustration of Boeing NewGen tanker with refueling boom extended. (Boeing)
Thursday, April 29, 2010
ST. LOUIS, MO – Ohio would gain approximately 690 jobs and an estimated $33 million in annual economic impact if Boeing won the U.S. Air Force's KC-X tanker jet contract, the company said Wednesday.
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Aeronautical Systems Center to host career fair
April 26, 2010
Monday, April 26, 2010
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The Aeronautical Systems Center here will host the 2nd Annual Career Fair to fill professional mid-career level, non-entry level, positions, according to an ASC announcement. More
Read more at AviationDayton.comSelectTech celebrates new Springfield airport facility
April 22, 2010
Thursday, April 22, 2010
SPRINGFIELD, OH –SelectTech Services Corp. executives, economic development officials and politicians held a ribbon-cutting ceremony today, April 22, for the new SelectTech Geospatial Advanced Manufacturing Facility on Springfield-Beckley Municipal Airport.
more Read more at AviationDayton.comEADS decides to compete for tanker contract
April 21, 2010
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
The Air Force's KC-X tanker jet program is a
competition again with the announcement Tuesday,
April 20, that the European Aeronautic Defence and
Space Co. (EADS) will bid on the $35 billion program.
EADS said its North
American unit will enter its KC-45 in the
competition and build the Airbus A330 derivative
in a new plant in Alabama. The Air Force's
Aeronautical Systems
Center manages the KC-X program office
at Wright-Patterson Air
Force Base.
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Dayton region leaders hear support for Issue One
April 08, 2010
Thursday, April 8, 2010
KETTERING, Ohio – Issue One campaign officials today urged Dayton-area business leaders to work for passage of a statewide proposal to renew the Ohio Third Frontier economic development program.
While they said the ballot issue to approve $700 million in bonds to finance technology development, commercialization and small business growth would continue a proven program that enjoys broad bipartisan support, campaign officials cautioned most voters aren't familiar with the program. Read more at AviationDayton.com
Tec^Edge’s IDEA Lab Spurs Innovation
April 02, 2010
Thursday, April 1, 2010
But their first breakthrough idea – controlling a machine in flight by warping its wings – came from idly twisting the ends of a cardboard box.
Wilbur and Orville used a box to help them think outside the box. Today, an organization named for them offers much more than a twisty box to help Air Force researchers at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base find solutions to complex problems.
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Region to get GE Aviation electric power center
April 01, 2010
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
DAYTON, Ohio – GE Aviation will create an Electrical Power Integrated Systems Research and Development Center (EPISCENTER) near Dayton, Ohio, the suburban Cincinnati-based company announced today.
The center will address several markets including on- and off-highway hybrid and electric vehicles, more electric aircraft for military and civilian markets, and marine applications. Read more at AviationDayton.com
