AHS Student Design Competition Winners Announced
Source: AHS, 13-Aug-12
AHS Executive Director Michael J. Hirschberg announced that The University of Maryland came in first-place in the 29th Student Design Competition graduate category with “Dart T690/E550,” a lift and thrust compounded VTOL aircraft, while Georgia Institute of Technology/University of Liverpool’s coaxial helicopter with a counter-rotating auxiliary propeller system titled “Advanced Racing Concept (ARC)” captured second-place [...]
Sikorsky selects SGI to power next generation helicopter design
Source: SGI, 18-Jan-12
SGI, the trusted leader in technical computing, today announced that Sikorsky Innovations, the technology development organization within Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, has selected an SGI® UV™ 1000 high performance computing (HPC) system with 576 cores and 1.5 TB of RAM, powered by Intel® Xeon® processor X7500 series, along with additional SGI storage and services, to enhance [...]
California teen wins Sikorsky’s Helicopter 2050 Challenge
Source: Sikorsky, 06-Dec-11
Sikorsky Aircraft, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX), and By Kids For Kids Co., an organization that inspires kids to be successful inventors, today awarded a California teenager the Igor Sikorsky Youth Innovator Award for envisioning a small unmanned helicopter that could carry critical relief supplies and electrical power to the scene of a natural disaster [...]
Russian Helicopters launches “Helicopter Designs for 2030″ contest
Source: Russian Helicopters, 15-Dec-10
(electronic translation from local language) Moscow, December 14, 2010 – JSC “Helicopters of Russia jointly with the Corporate University OAO Oboronprom holding a contest Helicopters XXI century”. It is open to students and university student teams (no more than three people), as well as workers holding enterprises “Helicopters of Russia”. Age of participants – 18-35 [...]
