NIAR’s ATLAS Lab to Install SAMBA Pro System in 2021
The National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) at Wichita State University (WSU) selected Fiber Patch Placement (FPP) technology for their portfolio of future composites production technologies. By the end of 2021, Cevotec will install a SAMBA
Pro Prepreg system at NIAR’s Advanced Technologies Lab for Aerospace Systems (ATLAS).
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Inside SAMBA Pro Prepreg. Image Credit: Cevotec.
Since its inception in 1985, the National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) at Wichita State University (WSU) become the United States’ premier aviation research institute. With nearly one million square feet of research and office space, NIAR provides research, design, testing, certification and training to the aerospace and manufacturing industries, FAA, Department of Defense and other government agencies.
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The National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) at Wichita State University (WSU, Wichita, Kan., U.S.) has announced that it has selected Fiber Patch Placement (FPP) technology to expand its technology portfolio for future composites production technologies. The installation of Cevotec GmbH’s (Munich, Germany) SAMBA Pro Prepreg system at NIAR’s Advanced Technologies Lab for Aerospace Systems (ATLAS) will be ready by end of 2021.
“Together with our U.S. partner Composite Automation, we are excited about this first FPP system in the United States and look forward to future R&D collaborations with NIAR,” states Thorsten Groene, managing director of Cevotec.
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Gov. Laura Kelly announced Thursday the creation of a new supersonic transportation corridor allowing aviation manufacturers to test aircraft designs that reduce the impact of sound on nearby communities.
TOPEKA Kansas and the Federal Aviation Administration have reached an agreement to establish the Kansas Supersonic Transportation Corridor, allowing testing for non-military aircraft exceeding the speed of sound.
The corridor is a 770-nautical-mile about 886 standard miles racetrack-shaped corridor, above 39,000 feet and runs the length of the state, starting just north of the border of Kansas and Oklahoma. It will support sustained flight up to Mach 3, or just more than 2,300 mph.
Agencies sign off on supersonic flight corridor in southern Kansas
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. â A new corridor established in southern Kansas will allow testing of non-military aircraft at supersonic speeds.
Gov. Laura Kelly announced the Kansas Supersonic Transportation Corridor Thursday. The corridor runs for nearly 800 miles along a stretch from near Pittsburg, Kansas, in the east and past Garden City and Liberal in the west. Wichita, which bills itself as the air capital of the world, lies at the heart of the corridor.
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On-aircraft experience in addition to simulator time is key to training pilots in aircraft upset recovery, safety and training experts say.
“Simulators are different than airplanes. The way your brain processes things and thereby the way you react to a situation is going to be different,” said Scott Glaser, speaking Dec. 2 during the NBAA VBACE virtual conference.
“The research shows that you need to train in an environment like the environment you’re going to experience these events in, so that means at least part of the training must be in an aircraft,” he advised.
Glaser is senior vice president of training provider Flight Research, of Mojave, California, and a member of the NBAA Safety Committee. Joining him in a discussion on Upset Prevention and Recovery Training (UPRT) were committee members Janeen Kochan, president of Aviation Research, Training and Services of Winter Haven, Florida, and Paul Ransbury, CEO of Aviation Performance Solu