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Featuring footage from the U.S. Department of Defense, this video explores various aspects of military operations. The ...

Utilizing Inductive Power Transfer (IPT) to charge Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and drones brings us closer to automating various UAV and drone applications. This article proposes a structural ...

In this paper an innovative and promising architecture of fault tolerant electromechanical actuator and the design process of electric motors for landing gear actuators for a small aircraft is ...

An Air Baltic flight bound for Riga was forced to make an emergency landing at Athens International Airport shortly after take-off on Thursday due to a reported landing gear malfunction. Airport ...