Sample Preparation of Titanium Grade 2

Titanium is a crucial component in aerospace and defense applications as well as in the biomedical field. The high ratio of strength to density of titanium and its alloys mean that it is as strong as some steels, but with a fraction of the density. However, titanium is more difficult than steel to prepare as a metallographic sample due to its ductile nature that renders it easily susceptible to damage.
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Boeing and NASA Glenn Develop Airplane Winglets from Shape Memory Alloys

NASA Glenn Research Laboratory in Cleveland, Ohio, has partnered with Boeing to test how shape-memory alloys can be used in deployable vortex generators (VGs), the tiny fins on airplane wings that help control airflow during flight. Currently most VGs on airplanes are static. They are fixed devices always present to improve performance during takeoff, landing, and irregular conditions.
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Lockheed Martin Agrees to Provide NASA Subsystems to Produce Orion Spacecraft

An aerospace company has made a contract with Lockheed Martin to provide critical components of NASA’s spacecraft. Collins Aerospace Systems, a unit of United Technologies Corp., has obtained a contract with Lockheed Martin to provide critical subsystems to produce NASA’s Orion spacecraft fleet for Artemis missions III through VIII.
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Airbus Introduces a Whale of a Transport Aircraft

The Airbus BelugaXL transport aircraft has entered swimmingly into service. The manufacturer noted the new jet is the first of six planned BelugaXL aircraft providing 30% more transport capacity.
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Inside the Carbon Nanotube Method for Airplane Production
A modern airplane’s fuselage is composed of multiple sheets of different materials, not unlike a phyllo dough pastry. Once these layers are stacked and molded into the shape of a fuselage, they are transferred into warehouse-sized ovens and autoclaves, where the layers fuse together to form a resilient, aerodynamic shell.
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