Changing the Strategy – Looking for Competitive Disadvantage
Most motorsport development deals with the search for a competitive advantage. Teams find ways to make their race machines faster, optimising them to reduce lap time to win races. Excerpt from an article by Racecar Engineering about how the aerodynamic design concept...
Take-Off for Sea Dart Project Grows Nearer
After four years on an incredibly challenging project we get to see the Sea Dart aircraft for real. The original brief from client The Little Jet Company was to take the original 1950s US Navy Sea Dart seaborne prototype jet fighter and produce a reduced size UAV...
World-First 3D-Printed Pistons Developed by Porsche, Mahle and Trumpf
Sports car manufacturer Porsche working jointly with mechanical engineering companies MAHLE and Trumpf, has produced high-performance aluminium pistons using 3D printing techniques for the first time for a sports car. While standard forged pistons have reached the...
Composite Curved Rear Bumper Beam Developed For New Corvette Stingray
Performance vehicle structures have long made extensive use of composite materials and the new generation of GM’s Corvette Stingray, continues the push. A key composite component of the new Corvette Stingray is a curved carbon fibre rear bumper beam, created through a...
BLOG: Thoughts On The 2020 International Symposium For Leading Edge Erosion
The recent International Symposium for Leading Edge Erosion in Roskilde, Denmark, was an interesting gathering of like-minded individuals. The detail that the teams presenting there had drilled into, in terms of characterising and analysing material properties, is in...Contact Us
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