UAV Future Aeronautical System Technologies

16/10/2019

A move in the right direction?

You may be eligible for financial support to help you equip with ADS-B as part of a new $12.5 million ADS-B Transponder Grant(external link) announced by the Government today.

13/10/2019

Heres the newsletter as a couple of .jpgs

13/10/2019

The latest newsletter on the Elfin progress.

25/09/2019

An awesome new display from Air Avionics.

AIR Control Display is our newly designed multi function display. It is a fully certified altimeter, and controls radios and/or transponders.

28/07/2019

Article in Aviation Week about RS.Aero.
https://aviationweek.com/paris-airshow-2019/stemme-sells-growing-surveillance-business

Since leaving the German motor glider company that continues to bear his name, Dr. Reiner Stemme has devoted his energies to utility air systems for surveillance and monitoring, generating several designs based on the sailplane formula for two related firms.

05/07/2019

Uplifted from Siemens news. They have sold their electric engine development company to Rolls Royce. This will provide a huge boost in funding for electric flight development and hybrid systems.

Siemens AG

Siemens sells electric aircraft-propulsion business to Rolls-Royce
Munich, 2019-Jun-18

Agreement signed: Rolls-Royce to acquire eAircraft
Sale to accelerate development of sustainable air transport
Rolls-Royce intends to become the leading supplier of electric and hybrid-electric propulsion systems for aircraft
Siemens will continue to support the transition to electric aviation with its digital solutions portfolio
Closing expected in late 2019
Siemens and Rolls-Royce signed an agreement today at the International Paris Air Show in Le Bourget (France) for the sale of Siemens' eAircraft unit. Through its Vision 2020+ company strategy, Siemens intends to sharpen its portfolio's focus. For this reason, the company's business with electric and hybrid-electric systems for aircraft will have substantially better growth perspectives with new owners closely connected to the aerospace industry. Closing is subject to the usual conditions and is expected to take place in late 2019. The partners have agreed not to disclose the financial details of the transaction.

"Our eAircraft team, under the leadership of Frank Anton, has made aviation history several times in the past ten years and is a pioneer in electric and hybrid-electric systems for aircraft," said Roland Busch, CTO and COO of Siemens AG. "With Rolls-Royce, we've found a perfect home for this business and have placed its expertise in the hands of one of Airbus' close partners. We will continue to cooperate with Rolls-Royce, in particular by making our digital solutions portfolio available in order to facilitate this major step toward sustainable, lower-emission aviation."

As an in-house startup with around 180 employees, Siemens eAircraft develops electric and hybrid-electric propulsion systems for the aerospace industry. At locations in Munich and Erlangen (Germany) and Budapest (Hungary), the unit has been cooperating with partners like Airbus to create prototypes for propulsion systems with power ratings ranging from less than one hundred to several thousand kilowatts – for instance for the Airbus air taxi, the CityAirbus. To further drive the technology, eAircraft entered a development partnership with Airbus in 2016. Siemens has been researching and developing electric aircraft propulsion systems for about ten years, setting several records along the way.

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Siemens and Rolls-Royce signed an agreement on June 18, 2019 at the International Paris Air Show in Le Bourget (France) for the sale of Siemens' eAircraft unit. Closing is subject to the usual conditions and is expected to take place in late 2019.

05/07/2019

Promotional brochure handed out at Paris Airshow.

05/07/2019

A big step forward with our new propeller design.
We are proud to announce, that we made a big step forward with our propeller design. After considering all different
aspects we found the optimum in increasing the number of blades to three!
This enables us to increase the handling qualities while obtaining the efficiency and the low noise and vibration
levels. The clearance is dramatically increased resulting in a highly reduced risk of prop strike or of damaging the
prop due to small debris. Anyway, the leading edge has an additional metal protection.
The three blades will ensure the exploitation of a maximum potential of the electric propulsion system.
In parallel Siemens confirmed that they will provide the SP70D motor. This marvelous piece of engineering boosts the
elfin takeoff power to 80 kW and the continuous power to 70 kW.
Find additional info in the Annex 1.3 Specification RS.3-Blade RETRAC Propeller. Online available here:
www.reinerstemme.aero/news-media/

25/03/2019

MOLD CONSTRUCTION FOR SERIES PRODUCTION
Mold making is a precision process. The master models/plugs of the fuselage and wings are completely milled from stable material and then prepared for carbon fiber vacuum infusion.

Using carbon fiber PrePreg material means that the curing temperature during the manufacturing process must rise to more than 135 degrees Celsius. Consequently all lamination molds have to be made of carbon fiber, too, to avoid component-distortion at high temperature during the annealing process.