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future of aviation

‘Ghosts’ In The Cockpit—Pilotless Flight Takes Off

Brock N Meeks Ideas Lab
April 14, 2017

Instead of summoning a car service with an app, could you hail an autonomous plane? Commercial flights already utilize autopilot technology in full. And Centaur, a 4,100-pound pilotless general aviation aircraft, from Aurora Flight Sciences, has already completed multiple successful pilotless flight trials.

 

 

Instead of hailing an Uber for a crosstown business meeting, what if you could summon an autonomously flown private plane to fly to a business meeting three states away? That future may be closer than you think.
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Wearable tech provides fast fixes for far-flung aviation repairs

March 17, 2017
Queensland-based aerospace company TAE saw disruption coming and grasped the bull by the headset: expanding the company’s business model, and revolutionising its operations with the development of fountx wearable assisted-reality technology to augment the capabilities of its field technicians.
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5th Generation defence force capabilities land in Oz

March 06, 2017
Australia’s new Boeing Growler EA-18G has the body of a Super Hornet, the comms-bending capabilities of a super-sleuth and 44,000 lbs of thrust, and it’s been flirting with aircraft enthusiasts at Avalon Airshow 2017.
But its significance to the Australian Defence Force is that this aircraft has teeth—the technology to disrupt, deceive and deny opposing radar and communications systems, and thereby reduce the risk faced by Australian forces in the field.
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Aerospace

GE Invests $4.3 Billion To Build Next-Gen Jet Engines, Open New Factories In The US

Tomas Kellner
February 15, 2017
The GE9X jet engine that GE Aviation is developing for Boeing’s next-generation wide-body passenger jet, the 777X, is wider than the body of a Boeing 737 and more powerful than America’s first manned space rocket. It’s also a big deal for the company’s business. Although the world’s largest engine isn’t scheduled to enter service until around 2020, the company already has recorded some 700 orders and commitments valued at $28 billion at list price.
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Aerospace

The Last Of The Hush-Hush Boys: Joseph Sorota, Who Helped Build The First U.S. Jet Engine, Dies At 96

Tomas Kellner
January 10, 2017

Joseph Sorota, likely the last member of the World War II-era top-secret team that designed the first U.S. jet engine, died Saturday at his home in Singer Island, Florida. He was 96.

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More big ideas for 2017

December 29, 2016
In this era of maximum disruption and its twin, brilliant innovation, the opportunities and the challenges for businesses, utilities and industries of every stripe are enormous.
As we pause for a break to reflect on the year that’s been, it’s also a time to look to the future and imagine what it looks like.

We canvassed eight super-smart leaders from a broad spectrum, including avionics, mental health, energy, carbon markets, research and academia and asked them the same two questions:
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    best of 2016

    Best Photos of 2016: The GE Edition

    Tomas Kellner
    December 28, 2016
    Every year, GE sends photographers, filmmakers and other artists around the world to document its technology in action. 2016 was no different. Pilot and photographer Adam Senatori flew to the Farnborough International Airshow to photograph the world’s latest and largest planes, Chris New went inside GE’s brand-new 3D-printing factory, and lensman and musician Ruben Wu visited America’s first offshore wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island. Take a look.
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    From Super Hornet to Growler—RAAF aircraft engines in formation

    December 14, 2016
    The in-flight capability of the RAAF’s new fleet of 12 EA-18G Growler airborne electronic attack aircraft is to disrupt, deceive and deny enemy radar systems and communications; on the ground, the strategy for maintaining these GE-powered Boeing mission leaders is to buddy up—work with trusted partners to ensure reliability and availability. 
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    research

    Make It Bigger: Ike Eisenhower And This GE Engineer Have Something In Common

    December 11, 2016
    Dartmouth had one of our computers, and they programmed it to develop the computer language BASIC. It allowed people to use the system to solve problems and handle data coming in out of the computer. Steve Wozniak may have used one such remote terminal to write software for Macs.
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    Fighting fire with fire: carbon offsets in the North Kimberley

    December 09, 2016
    In early 2014 four North Kimberley native-title groups registered fire-management businesses under the Carbon Farming Initiative. Since then they have generated some 400,000 Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) through traditional methods that burn vegetation early in the growth season, to prevent fierce high-summer wildfires.
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