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2013
Aerospace & Defense

Reusable Structural Component for Space Utilization

The design presented is based on the continued need for providing structural elements in space at optimum cost, appropriate utilization and reutilization. This concept describes a simple flanged beam with interlocking edges. When placed together, the geometry results in a cylindrical structure that, as shown in the drawings, provides the main section of an unmanned space craft.

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Kenneth Ballew
Lantana, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 3792
Aerospace & Defense
Jun 30, 2013

Robot for Detecting Weapons of Mass Destruction

Problem: It takes a lot of manpower to search an entire nation for weapons of mass destruction, as we learned in the Iraq War.

Solution: Have a swarm of robots lend some extra hands. Imagine a chassis mounted with a Geiger counter (for nuclear weapons), chemical residue sensor (for chemical weapons), pathogen sensor (for biological weapons), GPS receiver,

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Rogers Feng
Issaquah, United States
Votes: 1
Views: 3859
Aerospace & Defense
Jun 28, 2013

RW-Ducted Fan: A Novel Concept to Improve the Forward Flight of VTOL UAVs and Tiltrotor Aerial Vehicles

Ducted Fans have been used in a wide range of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aerospace vehicles, including manned and unmanned systems. This paper focuses on performance improvement of ducted fans in forward flight applied to VTOL UAV and Tiltrotor aerial vehicles.

The concept proposed is called Ring Wing Ducted Fan (RW-DF).

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Nelson Garcia Polanco
Zaragoza, Spain
Votes: 9
Views: 14048
Aerospace & Defense
Jul 2, 2013

Safer Aircraft: Applying Hermetic Passenger-Emergency Modules of Under Construction Plane.

With specimen of sea ships it is necessary to apply in planes modular construction of the passenger cabin. Everyone should have a module castle enabling the hermetic sublation from the rest of the plane. In case of the breakdown of the plane pyrotechnic cargoes should separate the module from the plane.

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Wojciech Starzec
Pniewy, Poland
Votes: 0
Views: 3622
Aerospace & Defense
Jun 26, 2013

Sailfish Aerodynamics Incorporated in Hybrid Aircraft

This project focuses primarily on the Sailfish Aerodynamics. The idea is to use the shape of the sailfish in a hybrid energy aircraft. The Sailfish (Istiophorus platypterus) is the fastest fish in the world with a speed of 68 mph (108.8 Km/h). Its body has a unique shape which is the lowest drag producing shape in nature.

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Sobin Santhosh
Muscat, Oman
Votes: 2
Views: 9203
Aerospace & Defense
May 30, 2013

SAM - "Friend of Front Line Soldiers"

Introduction:

Robot is a machine to execute different task repeatedly with high precision. Thereby many functions like collecting information and studies about the hazardous sites which is too risky to send human inside. Robots are used in different types like fire fighting robot, metal detecting robot, etc. Humanoids are robots which resembles human joints.

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Shyam R Nair
Chennai, India
Votes: 37
Views: 5107
Aerospace & Defense
May 21, 2013

Sensitive, High Resolution Thermal Infrared Imagers Based On Visible Digital Cameras

Two-dimensional detector arrays of thermal infrared imagers are expensive, especially at medium and high resolutions. A 10,000 pixel imager costs about $1,600. An 80,000 pixel device costs about $5,500, and an imager with near 3x105 pixels costs about $20,000. Now assume that, instead of the bolometric arrays of present thermal imagers we place a thin,

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Marcos Kleinerman
Amherst, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 6464
Aerospace & Defense
Jul 1, 2013

Simplest Quasistatic Test Machine

The structure of a spacecraft is designed to support the maximum quasi-static loads (accelerations) that it will be subjected to during its launch phase. These loads are a combination of the steady-state static loads and low frequency sinusoidal loads.

Quasi-static loads can be used to dimension the spacecraft,

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Edgardo Roggero
Villa Ballester, Argentina
Votes: 11
Views: 7237
Aerospace & Defense
May 11, 2013

Skill Capacity, Human Skills Assessment & Performance Evaluation Software

PRODUCT: SKILL CAPACITY© is a user-customizable, mobile skills assessment and performance evaluation “template” that will provide any DoD/SOF training program, skills evaluation program, etc., with the ability to identify, define and grade tangible fundamental skills (PST), advanced technical/tactical/physical (motor, psycho-motor) skills or the intangible and or, cognitive, learned,

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Barry Pokrifcsak
Aventura, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 4905
Aerospace & Defense
Jul 1, 2013

SkyAuto - A VTOL for Defense Transportation

SkyAuto:

SkyAuto will be a two-seater VTOL [Vertical Take Off &Landing Aircraft]. Having three small jet engines mounted at three sides of the VTOL, it will fly using "auto-pilot." My aim is to make it for defense transportation with enhanced security and advanced navigation.

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Nagarajan Br
Emaneswaram, India
Votes: 1
Views: 4150
Aerospace & Defense
Jun 21, 2013

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