Structural & Anatomical Systems

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Additive manufacturing

Additive manufacturing (AM) and 3D printing are key technologies used in the construction of UAVs in particular. They allow customised structures to be created to reduce component weight without compromising structural integrity...

Platform One

Bonded fasteners enhance aerostructure integrity

Click Bond is supplying a range of adhesive-bonded fasteners and fixtures to uncrewed and eVTOL customers, which yield a wide variety of advantages over traditional methods for panel attachment and harness routing in aerostructures...

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Composites

The world of composites, much like the rest of the world, is undergoing particular upheaval with respect to its relationship with uncrewed systems. Conflicts around the planet have awoken defence forces everywhere to the revolutionary...

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Machine tools

Across military and civilian industries, the world of uncrewed systems is growing fast, with tenders and orders for intelligent vehicles being announced more rapidly than ever. OEMs, both small and large, together with their subsystem suppliers...

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Connectors

All around the world, connector manufacturers are building factories and hiring people to cope with booming demand for their products as uncrewed vehicles and other high-end vehicular and electronic systems are output in greater quantities...

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New take on stability

Orthodrone is developing a multicopter technology it calls Pivot, which embodies the radical concept of stabilising the entire fuselage while the propulsion system moves around it to compensate for wind coming from any direction. The purpose of this departure from convention is...