Boeing to launch 3D camera

Thursday, March 11, 2010
By gary
Boeing to launch 3D camera

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., March 8, 2010 — The Boeing Company today announced it has begun offering a new, compact, energy-efficient camera that provides three-dimensional images for military and commercial applications. Boeing Directed Energy Systems and wholly owned Boeing subsidiary Spectrolab have jointly developed the camera using their own research and development funding, and successfully... »

AMA set out there sUAS stall

Thursday, March 11, 2010
By gary

Interesting comments from AMA President Dave Mathewson http://www.modelaircraft.org/files/0410Mathewson.pdf Model aviation has faced its share of challenges throughout the years. Urban sprawl threatening good,established flying sites; the scrutiny that model aviation, as well as a number of other activities, came under after the attacks of 9/11; and the... »

WWII RadioPlane flies again.

Friday, March 5, 2010
By gary
WWII RadioPlane flies again.

Found a great blog post… http://rcaircraft.blogspot.com/2010/03/wwii-uav-flies-again.html Marilyn Monroes old company »


Digital upgrade for Raven

Tuesday, February 23, 2010
By gary
Digital upgrade for Raven

AeroVironment Inc. (AVAV: News ) announced that it received firm fixed-price orders valued at $20.73 million for digital Raven unmanned aircraft systems and digital retrofit kits, and $17.14 million... »

OPV DA42 preparing for flight trials.

Tuesday, February 23, 2010
By gary

Not small, but OPV’s are a stepping stone towards sUAS in the NAS, just love using that phrase! MANASSAS, VA — (Marketwire) — 02/17/10 — Aurora Flight Sciences announced today... »

TERP II India’s first indigenous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

Tuesday, February 23, 2010
By gary
TERP II India’s first indigenous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

MKU has developed India’s first indigenous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle christened ‘TERP-II’. It will be showcasing a prototype of TERP-II at the Defexpo-2010 which is undergoing advanced testing routines at... »

Indian MAV’s shown at Defence Expo 2010

Monday, February 22, 2010
By gary
Indian MAV’s shown at Defence Expo 2010

DRDO Rolls Out Multi-Purpose Micro Air Vehicles Indian scientists from Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) are presently developing Micro Air Vehicles (MAV) for varied defence applications such as surveillance... »

New Open Source UAV Autopilot launched.

Tuesday, February 16, 2010
By gary
New Open Source UAV Autopilot launched.

In a week containing several new offerings this one stood out as the most exciting. Based on an ARM chip and being bought together by a very enthusiastic team... »

UK Police Force in trouble over UAV arrest.

Tuesday, February 16, 2010
By gary

From the Guardian Newspaper in the UK http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/feb/15/police-drone-arrest-backfires For Merseyside police, the “eye in the sky” arrest was a landmark moment in policing history. The force had managed to track down... »

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