The Vehicular Electronics Laboratory at Clemson University has posted a convenient update on the latest avionics EMC standards on its website. Included are ISO 14302e on “Electromagnetic Compatibility Requirements”, MIL-STD-461F, the “Military Standard for the Control of Electromagnetic Interference Characteristics of Subsystems and Equipment”, DO-160F on "Environmental … [Read more...]
Major Aerospace and Defense Cuts
Aerospace giant Boeing has announced that it will shed 10,000 employees, or more than six percent of its workforce. Workforce reductions will involve attrition, retirements, reductions in contract labor, and layoffs. This word of job cuts comes amid media reports of significant cancellations of orders for Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner, once touted as the aircraft that would dominate … [Read more...]
Software Toolbox Provides Environmental Models Magnetic Field, Gravity, & Atmosphere
Aerospace Toolbox 2.2 from the MathWorks provides reference standards, environment models, and aerodynamic coefficient importing for performing advanced aerospace analysis for developing and evaluating designs. Options for visualizing vehicle dynamics include a six-degrees-of-freedom MATLAB animation object and interfaces to the FlightGear flight simulator and Virtual Reality … [Read more...]
More Aerospace Products
High-Voltage Disc Capacitors Suit Aerospace and Industrial ApplicationsThe Cera-Mite 715CxxKT series, a family of single-layer devices from Vishay Intertechnology, are screw-mount disc capacitors offered in a wide range of diameters and capacitance values over rated voltages from 10 k VDC to 40 k VDC. With low AC and DC coefficients and a negligible … [Read more...]
High-Voltage Disc Capacitors Suit Aerospace and Industrial Applications
AVX HV02-HV06 DIP leaded stack capacitors, SV conformally coated radiated leaded capacitors, and high voltage MLCCs (>/= 1kV) are now available in DO-160 tested versions rendering them suitable for use in flight applications. The typical civilian aircraft is struck by lightning approximately every 1000 flight-time hours, posing a possible threat to increasingly complex and … [Read more...]
Enclosure Suppresses EMI in Military Airborne Configurations
A highly ruggedized system enclosure from One Stop Systems (OSS) targets military and airborne applications. Constructed of solid seam-welded aluminum, the 11U high enclosure measures 19″ (H) x 25″ x 17″ (W) and weighs 56 pounds. It contains a 3U 15-slot CPCI backplane and features a “floating card that sits within the enclosure and is surrounded by four banks looped cable … [Read more...]
Engineers Reject Boeing Contract Offer
In another sign of turbulent times in the aerospace industry, just last week engineers at Boeing’s Wichita, KS facility voted down Boeing’s latest contract officer. Following the recommendations of union negotiators, members of the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA), Local 2001 voted 209 to 28 to reject the offer. Boeing has offered three-percent … [Read more...]
Northrop Grumman Announces Consolidated Aerospace Systems Sector
Northrop Grumman, a well-known name in aviation and defense, recently announced structural changes intended to improve performance and growth potential and to enhance cost competitiveness. Instead of seven key sectors, the newly aligned corporate structure has five as the company’s Integrated Systems sector and its Space Technology sector have been combined into the new … [Read more...]
AEROSPACE 09
Aerospace Testing, Design & Manufacturing is the global meeting place for the aerospace engineering development community, connecting senior engineers with the most comprehensive source of industry expertise within aerospace testing, design and manufacturing pre-production.Find additional information online:http://www.aerospacetesting.com/. … [Read more...]
Firm Wins $4.8 Million Contract to Shield Military Radio
Wisconsin-based VTI Vacuum Technologies, Inc. has been awarded a $4.8 million contract by the office of Federal Prison Industries/Unicor. (Unicor is owned by the U.S. Department of Justice.) The contract requires that VTI provide a corrosion-resistant topcoat,EMI shieldingand outsourcing of the CARC (chemical agent resistant paint) for 300,000 components that are assembled into … [Read more...]
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