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Helicopters regularly have to get their rotor blades inspected, so they can be replaced if they're wearing out. Using the BladeSense system, however, the aircraft would be able to monitor the condition of their blades in real time, while in flight.

Cranfield Aerospace has received a £9-million (US$11.6-million) grant to convert a Britten-Norman (B-N) Islander into a hybrid-electric aircraft using an environmentally friendly propulsion kit that can be retrofitted.

​Currently, when aircraft need to be inspected for structural damage, people perform the task manually. While this does provide them with employment, it's also time-consuming, costly, and subject to human error. For this reason, a fuselage-climbing robot is being developed to do the job.

​There are already drones that take off and land vertically, but switch to faster, more efficient fixed-wing flight once airborne. Working with students from Britain's Cranfield University, BAE Systems engineers have taken that idea and put a whole new spin on it – quite literally.

The pizzicato knee-joint energy harvester is an experimental wearable device, that generates electricity via the bending of the wearer's knees as they walk.

A new type of aircraft has been unveiled which can launch vertically, hover perfectly still, move in any direction, is almost silent, has the dynamic stability to enter buildings, handles rough weather, flies fast and can carry very heavy loads

An unmanned aerial vehicle named DEMON is able to maneuver using air jets instead of traditional wing flaps.

Automotive engineering facilities in the UK have joined forces to design a system which allows conventional delivery vans to be cheaply converted to run in a zero-emissions, all-electric mode for urban use

January 11, 2009 Reynard is a name familiar to all motorsports enthusiasts – founded by the brilliant automotive engineer Adrian Reynard , it quickly grew

It’s showtime at Morgan and the factory of the icon of traditional motoring is abuzz as the show cars are all pushed onto the tarmac (pictured), ready for tra

December 14, 2006 Students from Cranfield University, one of Western Europe’s largest academic centres for strategic and applied research development and desig

September 23, 2005 A wholly British partnership yesterday unveiled plans to develop the world’s first environmentally clean sports car, powered by a fuel cell w