Weekly

Week 1 Introduction

Periodicals and textbooks

Week 2 Urban aviation

• • Urban aviation Flying taxis podcast

  • Quiz & answers

Week 3 Electrification

• • The death of the internal combustion engine [pdf]

  • Electrifying everything [pdf]

  • Electrifying flight [docx]

  • Potential for electric aircraft [pdf]

  • Technological, economic and environmental prospects of all-electric aircraft [pdf]

  • Regenerative breaking [docx]

  • Electric aircraft [docx] 

  • Future electric aircraft [docx]

  • Small hybrid-electric airliners ready for take off [docx]

  • The electric Airbus [docx]

• As electric motors improve

• Electric cars will arrive early

• Launching aircraft using electric motors

  • Quiz & answers

Week 4 Electric propulsion

• • First flight of ion-drive aircraft [pdf]

  • Flying with ionic drive [pdf]

  • Flight of an aeroplane with solid-state propulsion [pdf]

  • Plane with no moving parts takes first flight [video]

  • Toy model demonstrating ionic wind [video]

Week 4 Aviation

• Special report: The future of flight [pdf]

Changing aviation

Manufacturing

Propulsion systems

Avionics

Aviation and the environment

Supersonic aeroplanesUrbain air mobility

Week 5

Avionics and autonomy

Emergency landing system

Garmin promotion [video1] [video2]

The manager of the garmin autoland project [linkedIn]

Fluid dynamics

Artificial swimmers [Introduction 1][ Introduction 2]

Beads dancing to music creates 3D images [news article] [video] 

Ultrasonic leviation [video]

A volumetric display for visual, tactile and audio presentation using acoustic trapping [research article]

Small drones

Science, technology and the future of small autonomous drones [pdf]

Week 6

Flight shame

Audio: Autoland (Beginning at 17:15)

Audio: Boeing 737MAX

Beoing 737MAX

Special report: The future of flight, Avionics [pdf]

Glider soaring via reinforcement learning in  the field [pdf] 

Week 7 Drone technology

• • Special report: Civilian drones [pdf]

Civilian drones

Military origins

Business uses

Industries waking with the buzz

Future uses

A pioneer in robotics

Rules and regulation

• • Buzzed by the fuzz

  • Surge in applications to develop drones

  • Four steps to extend drone use in research

  • Technology for fighting drones

  • Rules for flying drones [docx]

  • Technology to combat rogue drones [docx]

  • The growing appetite for armed drones in the Middle East [docx]

  • Flight of the Robobee [pdf]

  • Insect-sized robot takes flight: RoboBee X-Wing [video]

  • Untethered flight of an insect-sized flapping-wing microscale aerial vehicle [pdf]

Week 7 Satellites

• • High flying pseudosatellites

  • Observatory signup, Quantum cubesats

  • Manoeuvring satellites [docx]

  • Space-junk spear

  • The stratolaunch

  • Space debris and safety

  • Repurposing wayward satellites

  • 50 years ago

  • Megaconstellation satellites threaten astronomical observation

Week 8 Fluid dynamics, aerodynamics, super and hypersonics

• • Silencing a sonic boom           

  • Supersonic air travel

  • Supersonic design 

  • A new engine could bring back supersonic air-travel

  • How supersonic jets may become less noisy

  • Microfluidics and article 

Week 7 Air travel

• • How to make air travel better

  • Air travel is nasty and unprofitable

  • Deregulation

  • Asian skies

  • European skies

  • Executive jets

  • Airport security

  • Cleaner skies

  • Small improvements

  • The case against private jets [docx]

  • Should we turn our backs on flying? [podcast]

Week 8 Materials for Aerospace

• • Materials for Aerospace

  • High performance alloy design

  • Structure How to knit a sports car [docx]

• Materials for Space Exploration

• Instant 3-D printing

• Interview with David Rugg (Senior Engineering Fellow in Materials at Rolls-Royce plc.)

• Materials for Space Exploration

  • Multimaterial 3D printing [video]

• Giant setup for additive printing

Week 8 Control, autonomy, robots and accidents

• • Digital twins

  • How birds land stably

  • Boeing airliner crashed in Ethiopia [docx]

  • Boeing 737 Max 8 crashes [doc]

  • Boeing 737 MAX 8: Revelations

• Automation : Computer in the cockpit [doc]

• Boeing's troubles

• Columbising AI ethics

• Controlled flight of a soft-robot

Week 9 Wind and alternative energy

• • Wind-powered ships

  • Kite power

  • Night sky

Week 10 Weapons

• • Priorities for the Pentagon [docx]

  • Chinese weaponry

  • A history of laser weapons [pdf]

  • Anti missile systems [pdf]

  • Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty 1

  • Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty 2

  • American Space Force

  • Saudi Arabia’s missile race [docx]

  •  Hypersonic missiles [pdf]

  •  Anti-satellite missiles: China and India (1/2)

  • Chernobyl with wings

  • Aircraft carriers [1][2]

  • The future of war

Week 12 Industry

• • Industrial engineering Global value chains [docx]

  • Tariff wars

Week 13 International

• • Turkish space agency

  • Chineese aerospace ambitions

  • X-rays v radiowave for space communications [pdf]China lands on the moons far side [pdf]

  • Indian aerospace technology

  • India launches Mars-bound probe, 5 Nov 2013

  • India gears up for second Moon mission, 24 Oct 2017

  • Indian start-up’s Moon mission in doubt, 19 Jan 2018

  • India’s surprise plan to send people to space by 2022, 5 Sep 2018

  • US-India radar mission 

  • First private Moon lander

  • Astronautics Israeli spacecraft Beresheet crashes into the Moon

  • Video : We choose to go the moon 

  • Video : We will try again, starting tomorrow.

  • Japan’s Self-Defence Forces

Week 14 Astrophysics

• Japan’s Hayabusa2 craft touches down on asteroid Ryugu

• Black hole photographed [pdf]

• More about the black hole news [video1] [video2]

• Square kilometer array radio telescope

Week 15 Moon, Mars and beyond

• How to build a moon baseThe world gets ready to return to the Moon

• Moon mission

• 50 years since Apollo 11

• Pioneering Mars rover mission formally ends after 15 years

• Leaving a rover on Mars

• Jupiter

• Saturn has 20 more moons