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2016
Aerospace & Defense

Universal Controller for UAS

MOTIVATION

Are you designing a small commercial unmanned airborne system (UAS)? Perhaps you have found a few suppliers for autopilots, but you have definitely faced the problem of finding the right supporting electronic modules, such as onboard power systems, motor drivers and servo controllers.

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Kirill Makukhin
Warner, Australia
Votes: 7
Views: 2815
Aerospace & Defense
Apr 9, 2016

Unusual State Alarm and Recovery Director

Unusual State Alarm and Recovery Director

inexpensive stall warning device based upon known aerodynamic performance of airplane, balancing G-forces against force proportional to dynamic pressure. The basis for this idea evolved early (US 1,885,578 and 504,062).

Such an instrument may be an airtight case having upper and lower halves,

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William Hinks
Akron, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 2632
Aerospace & Defense
Jul 1, 2016

Vehicle/Aircraft Seat With Pendulum Motion

Invention

The present invention relates to a vehicle seat that acts with a pendulum motion to reduce the likelihood of a passenger impacting the seat/structure in front of her during crash loadings.

Summary

In various modes of transportation, many passenger seats are at least partially surrounded by walls or monuments or may be placed behind other passenger seats.

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Oriol Oliva
Palm City, United States
Votes: 11
Views: 7290
Aerospace & Defense
Jun 30, 2016

Vertoflyer – A New VTOL Aircraft With Advanced Powerplant

Problem to be solved

We will rapidly approach a point where the terrestrial traffic simply stands still, and that will limit our personal movement. So the vertical flight made by Vertical Takeoff and Landing – VTOL aircarft becomes a logic and immediate solution. On the other hand, the single actual means for vertical flight is represented by helicopter.

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Liviu Grigorian Giurca
Craiova, Romania
Votes: 7
Views: 5208
Aerospace & Defense
Jul 1, 2016

VincSCalc

key Features:

- One of the few calculators with resizable window (up to full screen) in order to allow a wide input/output field for huge numbers (horizontal) and deeply nested calculation (vertical).

- Nesting of calculation kept shown in calculation area that may become vertically scrollable for deeply nested calculation.

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Vincenzo Sambito
Treviglio, Italy
Votes: 0
Views: 9086
Aerospace & Defense
Jun 27, 2016

XM-10

The M249 SAW and most other light machine guns (LMG) currently fielded by military’s around the world are outdated. Originally manufactured in the early '80's, their limitations such as painstakingly slow reload times, unreliable feeding mechanisms, lack of modularity, and cumbersome design make them inadequate for today's face paced and fluid battlefields. Despite these drawbacks,

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Derek Redmon
Tampa, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 3163
Aerospace & Defense
Jul 1, 2016

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