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Reducing stereotyping, providing mentorship and more can help women thrive in IT careers. Continue reading Women in Tech: Steps Leaders Can Take to Improve Retention and Career Opportunities
Many of us will have sat and idly watched the flaps and other moving parts of an airliner wing as we travel, and it’s likely that most of you will …read more Continue reading Making an Aircraft Wing Work for an Audience
Ornithopters have been — mostly — the realm of science fiction. However, a paper in Advanced Intelligent Systems by researchers at Lund University proposes that flapping wings may well power the …read more Continue reading Flappy Bird Drone Edition
Drones are pretty common in the electoronics landscape today, and are more than just a fun hobby. They’ve enabled a wide array of realtors, YouTubers, surveyors, emergency responders, and other …read more Continue reading Winged Drone Gets Forward Flight Capability
The exact airfoil shape of a wing has a massive effect on the performance and efficiency of an aircraft and will be selected based on the intended flight envelope. If …read more Continue reading A Guide To 3D Printing Model Aircraft Wings
It’s a fact of operating an aircraft, that the make noise. If you’re an aviator you might want to quiet your craft to avoid annoying people nearby, or you might …read more Continue reading Quiet Wings, with Shape Memory Alloy
So you say you want to fly above the waves on an electric hydrofoil, but you don’t have the means to buy a commercial board. Or, you don’t have the …read more Continue reading Shoot Above the Waves on This E-Foil Made from a Rifle Case
Last week we featured a story on the new rules regarding drone identification going into effect in the US. If you missed the article, the short story is that almost all unmanned aircraft will soon need to transmit their position, altitude, speed, and serial number, as well as the position …read more
No matter what they’re flying, good pilots have a “feel” for their aircraft. They know instantly when something is wrong, whether by hearing a strange sound or a feeling a telltale vibration. Developing this sixth sense is sometimes critical to the goal of keeping the number of takeoff equal to …read more
Continue reading Custom Strain Gauges Help Keep Paraglider Aloft
You know how it is. You’re working on a project that needs to move air or water, or move through air or water, but your 3D design chops and/or your aerodynamics knowledge hold you back from doing the right thing? If you use OpenSCAD, you have no excuse for creating …read more
Continue reading Quick 3D-Printed Airfoils with these OpenSCAD Helpers