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Teledyne has introduced a high-voltage connector system for use up to 13.5kV and 70,000 feet (21km) altitude. Called DHM, they use the company’s self-contained ‘Hi/Mate’ inserts, pre-wired inside sub-D housings and back-shells – they are only available made-up onto cables. “These inserts leverage Teledyne’s advanced interface sealing system, rendering them suitable for a wide range of aerospace and defense electronic ...

Mouser Electronics and Texas Instruments have teamed up to explore the challenges of electric urban air transportation (think: ‘big drones’) in a 26 page ebook. “Over the next ten years, the urban air mobility market will mature sufficiently to make short distance, point-to-point travel commonplace and affordable in densely populated areas through driver-less air taxis,” according to Mouser. “The five chapters ...

High-altitude 4G-5G basestation company Stratospheric Platforms (SPL) has received investment from the largest telecommunication infrastructure company in Indonesia, PT Profesional Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Protelindo). Its value is not being disclosed. SPL’s aim is to create hydrogen-powered aircraft which carry multi-beam 5G basestations that can each cover thousands of square km. Indonesia is spread over 17,000 islands and 1.9million square km. “This ...

BT and Stratospheric Platforms are to test phased array antennas designed to provide 4G and 5G coverage from stratospheric aircraft into the wilds. “This partnership will build on SPL’s world-first 5G demonstration from the stratosphere in 2022,” said SPL CEO Richard Deakin. Funded by Innovate UK, the trials will be at BT’s labs at Adastral Park and “could offer transformational ...

Microchip has announced a range of integrated power modules for applications including more-electric aircraft (MEA). Output power rating starts at 5kVA. Little hard information is yet available, but the company has said there will be 12 variants with either silicon carbide mosfets or IGBTs. One possible configuration “The configurable power devices include a three-bridge topology that is available in SiC ...

Harwin has added male flying leas options to its Kona high-power compact connector range, rated at 1.5kV and 60A per contact. All the new parts are suited to 8AWG wire. “This addition makes it possible to bring male and female cables together for the first time in a cable-to-cable arrangement, whereas previously we were only offering Kona in cable-to-board options,” ...

Slovakian company Klein Vision has made a flying car – which has just got a certificate of air worthiness. The most amazing bit about it, is how the folks there got the wings to fold into the car body – a real-life transformer. Do watch the video. And, don’t they make their vehicles look great? The Klein Vision website is ...

Flapping-wing drones are likely to look more and more like insects as their performance increase, according to researchers at the University of South Australia who have made a detailed study of dragonfly flight to improve the design of drones. “Dragonflies are supremely efficient in all areas of flying,” said UniSA professor Javaan Chahl. “They can turn quickly at high speeds ...

Founded by engineers from University of Wisconsin-Madison, a company has just appeared claiming to have a route to 13kW/kg electric motors for flight. “For long-distance electric aircraft to be feasible, substantial improvements need to be made to electric propulsion system technology,” according to the company, named H3X. “ARPA-E has determined that for a Boeing 737 to complete a typical five ...

TT Electronics has been awarded a contract from BAE Systems for the design, development and qualification of a flight control system dc-dc converter to support project Tempest, the UK-Italian fighter aircraft concept. “All this work will be completed in the UK,” TT Electronics marketing manager Josh Slater told Electronics Weekly. The aircraft consortium, called Team Tempest, includes BAE Systems, Rolls Royce, Leonardo, and MBDA, along with the RAF’s Rapid ...