Despite being integral to aviation for more than a century, propellers have changed remarkably little since the Wright Brothers. A team at MIT’s Lincoln Lab has developed a new propeller shape that ...
A section of a digitally enabled marine propeller blade has been produced using additive manufacturing, marking a development ...
Explore the design and performance of a massive 3D printed quadcopter with variable pitch propellers. A fascinating look at ...
When searching for a novel solution to a problem, sometimes the best bet is to look to nature first. Evolution has had uncountable eons to come up with efficient workarounds, so why not borrow some ...
A Firestorm xCell micro 3D printing factory loading onto a C-130 to print Tempest UAV systems at a U.S. Air Force base. Inside a standard shipping container, a "factory-in-a-box" hums to life. It is ...
Quadcopters tend to have very poor efficency because of their high disk loading. High disk loading– that is, how much weight ...