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Aerospace & Defense

CTOL and XSTOL Convertible Payload Transport Aircraft (CPTA)

CPTA family of aircraft has two branches: conventional take-off and landing (CTOL) and eXtreme short take-off and landing (XSTOL). The XSTOL variant has two sub-variants: the two-engine medium-lift, 100,000lb GTOW (featured on website), and a four-engine heavy-lift, 200,000lb GTOW (not featured on website).

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Thomas Mcnally
Philadelphia, United States
Votes: 6
Views: 1393
Aerospace & Defense
Jun 18, 2024

Star Power Aircraft

Aircraft, one of the biggest carbon dioxide producers worldwide, do not have a viable alternative. Electric aircraft are slow and extremely short range. Hydrogen powered aircraft have a more normal range but require specialized equipment while still remaining slow and expensive. Synthetic aviation biofuels do exist but are significantly more expensive that fossil fuels.

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Lukas Peterson
Socorro, United States
Votes: 2
Views: 1107
Aerospace & Defense
Jun 18, 2024

Civilian Alternative to the JetZero BWB

Once upon a time I would have been ecstatic about the BWB becoming a reality. Now, there is another, a simpler, cheaper to produce and maintain airfoil body that can outperform the BWB/HWB in many areas. It's called the Lifting Fuselage Configuration (LFC). See patent D984,353. Using NASA's PRSEUS composite, it can be built for much less.

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Larry Pope
Spokane, United States
Votes: 4
Views: 1402
Aerospace & Defense
Jun 16, 2024

Turbo Wing - TW Propulsion for a New Class of Vertical Take-Off and Landing Aircraft

Most of the current Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) aircraft use tilting propellers or wings acted by servo-motors or actuators which increase the complexity and reduce the failure probability of the propulsion system. The cost of such a vehicle is high and the maintenance operations are complicated.

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Liviu Grigorian Giurca
Craiova, Romania
Votes: 9
Views: 1857
Aerospace & Defense
Jun 3, 2024

Turbo Prop Engine

This project focuses on the design, development, and manufacturing of a small-scale turboprop engine. The goal is to create an efficient and reliable propulsion system using advanced engineering principles and 3D printing.

The engine design includes both axial and centrifugal compressors for optimal air compression. The axial compressor, located at the front,

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Harsh Shah
Bhubaneswar, India
Votes: 44
Views: 2525
Aerospace & Defense
Jun 1, 2024

Atmospheric Control

Using a power source that accumulates isolated charges, gravitational fields (not proven to be a misinterpretation in macrophysics in the ongoing research) are harnessed and then can be used in Atmospheric Control. The atmospheric medium can then be used in propulsion schemes. The development requires several power sources,

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Sherman Braithwaite
Brooklyn, United States
Votes: 1
Views: 1324
Aerospace & Defense
May 27, 2024

Highly Maneuverble Drone for Urban Search and Rescue Operations

Over 1,000,000 people are killed each year during urban disasters. 2,500,000 people will be permanently disabled or displaced, and the affected communities will take 20 to 30 years to recover and billions of dollars in economic losses. If we can reduce the initial response by one day we can reduce the overall recovery by 3 years.

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Alex Ramirez Serrano
Calgary, Canada
Votes: 0
Views: 1221
Aerospace & Defense
May 22, 2024

Planar Microwave Resonator Sensors to Detect Thin Ice for Aviation, Transportation, and Green Energy Application

In-flight ice accretion poses a persistent challenge to airplane safety by disrupting wing aerodynamics, leading to increased drag and reduced lift. Ice and snow are common experiences for a large segment of the global population,

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Mohammad Zarifi
Kelowna, Canada
Votes: 0
Views: 1758
Aerospace & Defense
May 16, 2024

Safe2Ditch Technology

Highly capable small UAVs provide substantial business opportunity, especially if allowed to operate in the suburban market. Reliability issues force the use of a safety pilot for each vehicle in operation, which is cost-prohibitive for large scale commercial applications and limits the use of these vehicles to line-of-site (LOS) operation.

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Jesse Midgett
Hampton, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 1509
Aerospace & Defense
May 10, 2024

Missile Defense System By Laser

PROBLEM: One of the problems with beam scaling systems, as well as command systems, is that the surface-to-air missile must have great maneuverability to intercept an evasive target. As they approach a target, beam-scaling missiles generally must adjust their turns to continue the rate of climb against the target. At high speeds,

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Guillermo Perez
Ciudad De México, Mexico
Votes: 0
Views: 1681
Aerospace & Defense
May 8, 2024

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