If you think stripping paint off an end table can be a messy, time consuming job, imagine removing paint and other coatings from an aircraft like the C-130 transport plane. Tasked with developing a ...

Anyone who’s ever done any home renovation knows what a messy job removing paint can be. But imagine that instead of a flat wall you were tasked with stripping a curvy streamlined fighter plane. And ...

German maintenance provider Lufthansa Technik (LHT) is developing a laser-based paint stripping system for application on the latest composite aerostructures. While paint layers on metallic surfaces ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Most of the Air Force’s F-16 fleet is painted a shade of grey ...

Air Force Research Laboratory Materials Integrity engineers recently played a key role in enabling the safer and more efficient removal of paint from F-16 aircraft through the newly adopted Robotic ...

Who among the Navy’s best and brightest hasn’t at some point earlier in their enlisted career been forced to scrape rusting, dilapidated paint from the various corners of the service’s ageing fleet of ...

The Air Force spent seven years developing a new way to remove paint from metallic and carbon-fiber aircraft surfaces, the newly-adopted Robotic Laser Coating Removal System. Paint removal is a common ...

PITTSBURGH—Carnegie Mellon University's National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) and Concurrent Technologies Corporation (CTC) of Johnstown, Pa., are working with the Air Force Research Laboratory ...

When using laser weapons to defend against hypersonic missiles, cranking up the power does not automatically guarantee better outcomes. That is what a team of aerospace defence engineers and ...