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AEROSHIELD™: Predictive AI Wildlife Strike Prevention Network for Airports

Wildlife strikes cause billions of dollars in aircraft damage, flight delays, and safety risks every year. Existing airport wildlife management systems are largely reactive, responding only after birds or animals have already entered operational areas. As global air traffic continues to grow, airports require a smarter and more proactive solution.

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Somashekar V
Bangalore, India
Votes: 75
Views: 1955
Aerospace & Defense
Jun 19, 2026

AI-Driven Airworthiness Triage Engine

Civil aviation is currently facing an unprecedented, multi-billion-dollar operational crisis centered on the Pratt & Whitney Geared Turbofan (GTF) engine family. Between 2015 and 2021, microscopic ceramic tooling particles contaminated the powdered metal used to forge high-pressure turbine and compressor discs. Under extreme operational stress, these impurities cause subsurface micro-cracks that risk catastrophic,

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Tanuj Katyal
Vellore, India
Votes: 0
Views: 124
Aerospace & Defense
Jun 28, 2026

Airborne Hotel (AbH) – Modular Aircraft Cabin System

The Airborne Hotel (AbH) concept addresses a core limitation in commercial aviation: rigid cabin layouts that fail to adapt to diverse passenger needs, operational demands, and evolving safety expectations. Current aircraft interiors prioritize seat density over comfort, accessibility, and flow efficiency, often leading to passenger fatigue, restricted mobility, and limited flexibility for airlines.

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Mario Martinez Celis
Vicente Lopez, Argentina
Votes: 0
Views: 500
Aerospace & Defense
Apr 1, 2026

Aircraft Landing Renaissance

The airline industry was founded on principles of Speed, Safety, Security, and Convenience. However, the evolutionary demand has outpaced its growth, leading to catastrophic results which in part triggered an avalanche of advancements.

The introduction of jet engines, short take off or vertical takeoff aircraft, etc. heralded an era of conformity to changing climate of aviation.

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Gagandeep Walia
Pune, India
Votes: 0
Views: 114
Aerospace & Defense
Jun 28, 2026

Aircraft Parachute with an Elastic Opening

In any situation where the aircraft is unable to continue its flight, these parachutes would prevent the otherwise inevitable crash. They are mounted at the base of the wings and deploy at high speed. Thanks to an elastic opening in the center, they do not tear apart or cause excessive deceleration. Instead, they slow the aircraft gradually.

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Konstantin Vankov
Mühlhausen I.t., Germany
Votes: 0
Views: 133
Aerospace & Defense
Jul 1, 2026

Aircraft Sealant Scraper

One of most terrible tasks in aircraft maintenance is sealant removal. Although terrible, still need someone to finish. Sealant is one of the important elements for aircraft family. That's why I developed a tiny but powerful tooling for aircraft.

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Chin Tang Sam
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Votes: 1
Views: 344
Aerospace & Defense
May 20, 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: 1
Views: 150
Aerospace & Defense
Jun 24, 2026

Anti-drone Swarm Defense

We are addressing the challenge of identifying and disabling drone swarms at a distance of more than one kilometer. Our solution is to assemble a defensive drone swarm that can act together as a large phased-array antenna to emit focused high-power microwaves.

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Irving Weinberg
North Bethesda, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 149
Aerospace & Defense
Jul 8, 2026

ARES — Assisted Rapid Emergency Sealant System

ARES — Assisted Rapid Emergency Sealant System is a crew-assisted emergency repair system for rapidly mitigating small hull breaches in spacecraft, orbital habitats, pressurized rovers, aircraft, and other critical enclosures. ARES may receive breach-location and severity data from a structural impact and leak detection system such as DSILS,

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Christopher Spacone
Torrance, United States
Votes: 0
Views: 336
Aerospace & Defense
Jun 3, 2026

ATLAS: Practical Vacuum Buoyancy for Sustainable Flight

Every aircraft that has ever flown has depended on one of two things: consuming energy or carrying a lifting gas. ATLAS challenges that assumption.

For over 300 years, engineers have recognised that a vacuum is the ultimate lifting medium. Unlike helium or hydrogen, a vacuum can never leak away because it contains nothing.

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Robert Edwards
London, United Kingdom
Votes: 1
Views: 1145
Aerospace & Defense
Jul 6, 2026

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