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WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. –The sunshine promises warmth, but the wind is brisk and biting. The grounds of the NASA Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia’s Eastern Shore are wet from early morning rain, but there is no sign of the snow…
Groupe Gorgé, via their subsidiary ECA S.A., has acquired French UAV copter provider Infotron for €2.5 million and 375,000 shares of ECA – a combined value of around $10 million. The acquisition supplements ECA’s line of unmanned underwater and aerial devices and systems with…
BLACKSBURG, Va., April 22, 2014 – A trailblazer in the field of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) has been chosen to lead one of the six federally approved test sites working to safely introduce unmanned aircraft into the nation’s skies. Rose…
Transport Canada and the RCMP are investigating videos posted on YouTube showing an “unmanned air vehicle” flying near Vancouver International Airport and over Vancouver Harbour, the site of commercial float-plane operations. Transport Canada spokesman Rod Nelson said Tuesday the federal…
By Andrea Domanick Remember our April Fool’s post earlier this month, about drones at Coachella? Well, it turns out we were prophetic. Those hovering propeller-powered crafts have indeed arrived at Coachella. They could be spotted this year floating surreptitiously above the crowds,…
Marc Stewart, April Nowicki DENVER – The Federal Aviation Administration announced Tuesday that it is launching an official investigation around the drone that was seen flying over the 4/20 rally in Denver on Sunday. “Anyone who wants to fly an aircraft…
We are quickly approaching May 8th, 2014. Day one of the two day premier Unmanned Systems Business event in the hub of technology innovation, San Francisco California. The sUAS News group present an offering to attendees to highlight and showcase what makes…
Of course sUAS News is fully behind Gene’s action against the FAA. This battle has been a long time coming the expertise of attorney Brendan Schulman will be put to good use! Gene, Brendan and Patrick will be talking about the…
Brandi Jewett GRAND FORKS – The announcement Federal Aviation Administrator Michael Huerta stopped in Grand Forks to make Monday was one stakeholders in North Dakota’s growing unmanned aircraft systems industry have been waiting months to hear. “Today, the FAA is…
Michael Cooney It sounds like a good idea – develop an online system of publically reporting and disseminating problems or incidents stemming from the use of unmanned aircraft in the public airspace. In practice you’d have to wonder if such…
John Goglia The search and rescue non-profit, Texas EquuSearch, has filed a petition before the federal Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. seeking to overturn a February order by the FAA to stop using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVS) in its…
BANGALORE: Startups have always looked at things in a unique way. Some companies have forged ahead in the vertical giving rise to ‘Drone technology’. Around half a dozen Indian companies are into drone technology and has managed to catch the…
Tidy bit of video, from Dassault, who’s founder Marcel Dassault is famously thought to have said “For a plane to fly well, it must be beautiful.” When will we see the first three ship of UCAVs I wonder. A Taranis,…
Brandi Jewett, Grand Forks Herald THIEF RIVER FALLS, Minn. — Though North Dakota and five other states edged Minnesota out of the running for an unmanned aerial systems test site last year, there doesn’t seem to be any hard feelings.…
U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. – Thanks to an ongoing collaboration between Defense Department contractors, the Air Force and the Academy, progress is now being made on a problem that’s plagued the remotely piloted aircraft community for more than a decade: how…
Rich Keller The big announcement of the six national test sites for unmanned aerial systems (UAS) was only the first step in putting things into motion for “testing” at each of the six sites authorized by the Federal Aviation Administration…
By David G. Sellars An unusual-looking apparatus was installed Thursday on the foredeck of Solution (GRC 43), which is moored to Westport Shipyard’s dock at Port Angeles Boat Haven. Solution is a 142-foot composite material craft that Westport built on…
