Vac Aero, Burlington, Ontario, has sold a VAV6648 HV-2 vertical vacuum furnace to an international airline company.
Vac Aero sells vacuum furnace to international airline
Reptile skin patterns etched on steel parts reduce friction by 40%
Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, have succeeded in reducing friction on steel parts by as much as 40% by etching surface patterns resembling those on the skin of reptiles.
RTI to supply finished titanium structural parts to Airbus
RTI International Metals Inc., Pittsburgh, announces that it has been selected to provide finished titanium structural parts to Airbus for its new A350-1000 aircraft program.
NASA’s New Horizons Reaches Pluto
Launched in 2006, the New Horizons space probe is powered by plutonium. (No surprise there!) It will take 16 months for the probe to transmit all its data to Earth.
Density-near-zero acoustical metamaterial made
Researchers created a tunable membrane “metamaterial” with near-zero density, effectively recreating the quantum tunneling effect for sound waves