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AeroMorph: An Adaptive Servo-Controlled Morphing Wing UAV for Energy-Efficient Flight

AeroMorph is an adaptive morphing wing UAV concept designed to improve flight efficiency by allowing the aircraft wing to change its aerodynamic shape according to different flight conditions. Conventional UAV wings are generally designed with a fixed geometry, which means they must compromise between lift, speed, stability, and energy consumption throughout a flight.

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Rayan Mathew
Pune, India
Votes: 0
Views: 180
Aerospace & Defense
Jun 25, 2026

Active Shooter Interdiction (Dual Use, Patent)

The danger of active shooters will never be removed from the mind of the public. This Dual Use patented technology is the first true Active Shooter Interdiction system and is the ultimate embodiment of defer, delay and deny of a shooter. With flexible designs to protect and fit many applications at building entrance points at ground level with single,

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Vincent Riden
Los Angeles, United States
Votes: 1
Views: 85
Aerospace & Defense
Jun 25, 2026

An Infrastructure for Safe Sky - Emergency External Electric Power Supply for Electric Aircraft Propulsion

Electric aircraft operation is a likely to reshape the world of flight. Thousands of Urban Air Mobility and eVTOL aircraft are expected to swarm the sky daily over the next ten years. Thus, the safety aspect will become more prominent.

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Proloy Jyoti Naskar
Bengaluru, India
Votes: 0
Views: 96
Aerospace & Defense
Jun 24, 2026

Electric Aircraft Propulsion - Do Away with Dead Weight of Battery

Electric aircraft's growth is hampered by today's limited battery technology. Very low power density means heavy pack of battery to meet the power demand and required range. In traditional aircraft fuel is consumed which continuously makes the aircraft lighter in flight and during landing.

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Proloy Jyoti Naskar
Bengaluru, India
Votes: 0
Views: 71
Aerospace & Defense
Jun 24, 2026

Kinetic Oasis

A Technical Guide to the Kinetic Oasis System

The Architecture of Extreme Resilience

Engineering a sustainable habitat for desert environments requires solving for a massive thermal equilibrium delta and acute water scarcity. The Kinetic Oasis is a modular,

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Massimo Plavsic
Ravenna, Italy
Votes: 1
Views: 398
Aerospace & Defense
Jun 23, 2026

Autonomous Aerial Firefighting (AAF)

The AAF system is squadrons of low-cost, mass-produced, autonomous electrically-powered "eTanker" aircraft with high lift-to-drag ratios that can perform Extremely Short Take-off and Landings (ESTOL) with ultra-quiet propulsion that enables high-proximity aviation, with autonomous interoperable dock loading with quick turnaround times enabled by use of payload-agnostic carts.

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Brien A Seeley
Santa Rosa, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 85
Aerospace & Defense
Jun 22, 2026

ZIPLOK AUTOMATICALLY LOCKING NUT Flexible Thread Technology

Flexible Thread Technology (FFS) was invented by Robert Fullerton in 1979 and has 6 U.S. patents granted and 4 new, “Automatically Mechanically Locking Fastener/Coupler” provisional patents. 

The success of these projects prompted NASA to include FFS Technology as a “Recommended Technique for Effective Maintainability in Selection of Robotically Compatible Fasteners and Handling Mechanisms”.

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Robert Fullerton
Reno, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 449
Aerospace & Defense
Jun 21, 2026

Repellion: Zero-Power Ice Detection and Autonomous De-Icing That Keeps Drones Flying in Icing Conditions

What problem does it solve?

On any drone mission in cold or icing conditions, a critical dilemma exists: protect against ice with continuous heating that drains the battery margin needed for flight time, or fly unprotected and risk losing lift and control when ice forms undetected.

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Kamran Alasvand Zarasvand
Toronto, Canada
Votes: 7
Views: 193
Aerospace & Defense
Jun 20, 2026

Disturbance-Resilient Ducted VTOL UAV (DRD-VTOL) for Adverse Environment Operations

Conventional open-rotor UAVs suffer from two major limitations in aerospace operations: severe susceptibility to wind disturbances and safety hazards from exposed blades. In crosswinds, open propellers experience asymmetric lift and tip vortex states, causing roll/pitch instability. This restricts their use in turbulent weather, close to infrastructure, or during tactical military and disaster-relief operations.

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Indrajith G A
Bangalore, India
Votes: 1
Views: 116
Aerospace & Defense
Jun 20, 2026

Solution Finder: A Matching Engine for Aviation's Digital Transformation

Aviation's digital transformation is stalled by a selection problem, not a technology shortage. Hundreds of software vendors serve maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO), flight operations, and supply-chain functions, yet operators have no structured way to identify which tools fit their fleet, systems, and regulatory environment.

Procurement is driven by word-of-mouth and trade-show contact,

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Monica Badra
Pierrefonds, Canada
Votes: 0
Views: 94
Aerospace & Defense
Jun 20, 2026

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