A new programme funded by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) aims to create a new breed of vehicles that will combine the advantages of ground vehicles with those of helicopters.
Frontline troops need food, fuel and ammunition to keep them alive but resupplying them can be extremely hazardous, which is why engineers are being tasked with finding ‘last mile’ delivery solutions.
Boeing has announced that Luxembourg’s Cargolux has placed a follow-on order for three Boeing 747-8 Freighters, valued at $845m at list prices, and added two options.
Researchers from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) have demonstrated that sound can be used to determine what a 3D-printer is creating, raising potential security issues for manufacturers.
New materials that can withstand extreme temperatures and blasts are to be developed by DMEx, a £42.5m research partnership set up by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl).
Features editorThe Engineer
Boeing has announced that the first flight of the 787 Dreamliner is expected by the end of 2009 and the first delivery is expected to take place in the fourth quarter of 2010.
