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AEROSPACE 2017 February 44 Number 2 Volume Society Royal Aeronautical www.aerosociety.com ACCELERATING INNOVATION WHY TODAY IS THE BEST TIME EVER TO BE AN AEROSPACE ENGINEER February 2017 PROPELLANTLESS SPACE DRIVES – FLIGHTS OF FANCY? BOOM PLOTS RETURN TO SUPERSONIC FLIGHT INDIA’S NAVAL AIR POWER Have you renewed your Membership Subscription for 2017? Your membership subscription was due on 1 January 2017. As per the Society’s Regulations all How to renew: membership benefits will be suspended where Online: a payment for an individual subscription has Log in to your account on the Society’s www.aerosociety.com not been received after three months of the due website to pay at . If you date. However, this excludes members paying do not have an account, you can register online their annual subscriptions by Direct Debits in and pay your subscription straight away. monthly installments. 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After massive growth, the consumer and civil drone USAF sector is now under pressure. France’s Parrot, for example, reported a 15% drop in revenue and is to lay off 35% of its staff. 3D Robotics also laid off staff and closed a US factory last year. Start-up Lily Robotics, which launched an autonomous self-following quadcopter drone, has gone under. Even action camera specialists GoPro has had to recall its Karma drone due to battery 32 issues. Why is this happening? One reason might be intensifi ed competition, 19 A longer wait to leave? particularly from massive drone manufacturer DJI with two-thirds of the Going nuclear What impact might Brexit market, whose huge volumes mean it can cut prices to put pressure on new The US considers the have on passenger transit entrants. Secondly, there is a realisation that, despite moves by regulators to options to modernise its times at UK airports? nuclear arsenal. open up airspace for civil UAS, viable business models remain a niche. While some commercial operators are quietly making progress, the hype is beginning to wear off claims of ‘urban delivery’ services just around the corner. Finally, it may be that the consumer UAV market has reached saturation point. Unlike perhaps a smartphone, not everyone wants (or needs) their personal drone. Cannae Reduced discretionary spending for consumers too, may mean that the novelty is beginning to wear off. This is not to say that UAVs will stop being arguably Boom Technology the most dynamic and innovative sector in aviation – but it does mean that there will be fewer gimmicky identikit quadcopters being launched. That really 22 34 can be no bad thing and is a sign of this sector evolving and maturing. Flights of fancy? Baby boomers Tim Robinson Are recent claims to have Is Boom Technology’s discovered propellantless 45-seat ‘Son of Concorde’ [email protected] propulsion for spacefl ight supersonic jet design fact or fi ction? NEWS IN BRIEF commercially viable? 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DZYNE Technologies Scaling down the BWB To scale down a blended wing airliner, DZYNE has moved the cargo areas and landing gear from underneath to alongside the central passenger cabin in the wings. By keeping passengers close to the centre, it should also mean that any vertical movement during turns for those on the outside is kept to an absolute minimum. GENERAL AVIATION Bizjet blended-wing From US-based DZYNE Technologies comes this concept for a Blended Wing Body (BWB) aircraft – the Ascent 1000. Described as a ‘super regional jet’ for the 2025s, the 112-seat Ascent would burn 20% less fuel than today's airliners, thanks to its BWB effi ciencies. Interestingly, the company also forsees the Ascent also being turned into an ultra-spacious bizjet, with three times the fl oor space of comparable large business jets. 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