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GA-ASI & UK Partners Validate New Open Payload Architecture During SPCD

16 May 2012
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GA-ASI & UK Partners Validate New Open Payload Architecture During SPCD

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA‑ASI), a leading manufacturer of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), tactical reconnaissance radars, and electro-optic surveillance systems, along with SELEX Galileo (a Finmeccanica company) and Cobham Aviation Services (Cobham), today demonstrated a new open payload architecture during the Sovereign Payload Capability Demonstration (SPCD) held at GA-ASI’s Gray Butte Flight Operations Facilities in Palmdale, Calif. The...

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Mystery object nearly causes mid-air collision

16 May 2012
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DENVER – The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a mystery in the sky. A mysterious object flying over Denver nearly caused a mid-air collision Monday evening, 9Wants to Know has learned. As far as investigators know, the mystery object...

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Unlicensed pilots operating drone aircraft in Illinois airspace

16 May 2012
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Unlicensed pilots operating drone aircraft in Illinois airspace

BY NOLAN PETERSON Medill Reports The FAA said it has met a key congressional requirement to streamline the integration of unmanned drone aircraft, known as UAVs, into U.S. airspace by 2015 – allowing public agencies to operate drones with fewer restrictions....

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Saab flight tests heavy fuel version of Skeldar UAV

16 May 2012
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Saab flight tests heavy fuel version of Skeldar UAV

Saab has conducted flight tests of a heavy fuel powered version of its Skeldar vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in Sweden and Germany. Mikael Franzen, director...

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Safeguarding The Oceans With The Sea Shepherd and sUAS

16 May 2012
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Safeguarding The Oceans With The Sea Shepherd and sUAS

In this installment, we will discuss the role sUAS plays in assisting the Sea Shepherd in their ongoing endeavor to help safeguard the inhabitants of our delicate ocean ecosystems....

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X-47B gears up for summer milestones

16 May 2012
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X-47B gears up for summer milestones

In recent months, Pax River personnel may have noticed a new, uniquely shaped tailless aircraft on the runway, the X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstrator (UCAS-D). “This summer will...

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Drone Surveillance in Your Backyard? LAPD Has No Plans to Use Unmanned Aircraft … Yet

16 May 2012
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Drone Surveillance in Your Backyard? LAPD Has No Plans to Use Unmanned Aircraft … Yet

By Dennis Romero LA Weekly So cops can now fly unmanned aircraft known as drones, which could be used to peek into your backyard and maybe even into your window at night. So...

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Singapore:Minister for Defence observes naval exercise

16 May 2012
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Singapore:Minister for Defence observes naval exercise

Minister for Defence Dr Ng Eng Hen visited the Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN) earlier today, where he observed a Fleet Exercise at the South China Sea. During the...

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Unmanned aircraft expected to soar beyond military applications

16 May 2012
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Unmanned aircraft expected to soar beyond military applications

Slim Smith/Dispatch Staff STARKVILLE — With two Columbus companies heavily involved in what Dr. Jon Waldrop calls an industry in its infancy, Columbus is establishing a reputation in the...

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Drones: calculation replaces euphoria

15 May 2012
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Drones: calculation replaces euphoria

Ilya Kramnik The Voice of Russia Unmanned aircraft have become an integral part of modern armies. Almost every day we receive information about drone attacks. Not only Al-Qaeda gunmen, but...

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Draganflyer X4-P launch

15 May 2012
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Draganflyer X4-P launch

Draganfly Innovations Inc. has released the Draganflyer X4-P, the newest model in their series of well-engineered, miniature flying VTOL UAV’s. Designed for safe and stable commercial/industrial aerial videography and photography,...

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ING Engineering Expands into Sherbrooke, QC

15 May 2012
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ING Engineering Expands into Sherbrooke, QC

Sherbrooke, QC  - ING Engineering, Canada’s leading robotic aircraft systems solution provider expands into Quebec. Ian Glenn, Chairman and CEO states “we have chosen to expand into the Sherbrooke...

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FAA Makes Progress with UAS Integration

15 May 2012
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FAA Makes Progress with UAS Integration

For more than five decades, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has compiled a proven track record of introducing new technology and aircraft safely into the National Airspace System (NAS)....

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Patrick in the New Yorker

14 May 2012
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Patrick in the New Yorker

sUAS News in the New Yorker, look out for Patricks words of wisdom on newsstands now. THE WORLD OF SURVEILLANCE about drones. The prospect of unmanned flight has been...

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Newtec Provides Key Satellite Communication Technology for EURO HAWK

14 May 2012
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Newtec Provides Key Satellite Communication Technology for EURO HAWK

SINT-NIKLAAS, Belgium, 14 May 2012 Satellite specialist Newtec’s IP traffic enhancement and shaping technology Cross-Layer-Optimization™ has been implemented in the flagship EURO HAWK® Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) which detects and...

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First manned flight of QF16

14 May 2012
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First manned flight of QF16

JACKSONVILLE, Fla., May 14 The first test flight of Boeing’s QF-16 Full Scale Aerial Target drone has been conducted with the U.S. Air Force with a human pilot at...

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The Brican TD100 Prepares for Take Off

14 May 2012
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The Brican TD100 Prepares for Take Off

  Brican Flight Systems Inc. is set to reveal the TD100 series of advanced Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) at the Ontario Centres of Excellence’s Discovery 2012 conference held May...

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Ascent Solar Named Bye Aerospace Development Partner

14 May 2012
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Ascent Solar Named Bye Aerospace Development Partner

THORNTON, Colo., May 14, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc., a developer of flexible CIGS solar panels, has been named a development partner for Bye Aerospace Inc.’s...

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CATUAV collaboration with the CSIC in the project MESTRAL

14 May 2012
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CATUAV collaboration with the CSIC in the project MESTRAL

The main goal of the project MESTRAL is to investigate the presence of small-scale transport processes in the Alfacs Bay, and how they affect the spatial patterns of optically active constituents...

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Army’s drone project attracts two bitter rivals

13 May 2012
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Army’s drone project attracts two bitter rivals

By Kim Tae-gyu Korea’s two major players in the aerospace industry are pitted against each other for a government order to build unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The Defense Acquisition...

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sUAS News Podcast Series

13 May 2012
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sUAS News Podcast Series

The inaugural sUAS News Podcast is now available for download. We kicked the series off with special guest and UAS Search and Rescue expert, Gene Robinson. Downloadable here RSS...

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Spy Balloons Become Part of the Afghanistan Landscape, Stirring Unease

13 May 2012
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Spy Balloons Become Part of the Afghanistan Landscape, Stirring Unease

By GRAHAM BOWLEY New York Times KABUL, Afghanistan — The traders crouched beneath the walls of an old fort, hunkered down with the sheep and goats as they talked, eyes nervously...

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Raven and Puma RFP for Redstone

13 May 2012
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Raven and Puma RFP for Redstone

This is a Special Notice only. It does not constitute a Request for Proposal (RFP) or a promise to issue an RFP in the future. All interested parties are...

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Consortium hopes $5M outlay lures more Air Force UAV work

12 May 2012
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Consortium hopes $5M outlay lures more Air Force UAV work

By Barrie Barbe Dayton Daily News FAIRBORN — A Dayton region consortium will invest $5 million on UAV test equipment in a bid to win more lucrative Air Force...

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Raven Aerostar Integrates Vista Research Radar Onto Revolutionary Tethered Aerostat

12 May 2012
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Raven Aerostar Integrates Vista Research Radar Onto Revolutionary Tethered Aerostat

SIOUX FALLS, S.D.,  Raven Aerostar successfully integrated and deployed a Vista Research Smart Sensing Radar System (SSRS) onto its proprietary TIF-25KH tethered aerostat. Vista Research, a leading provider of...

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Police seek bigger picture in using drones but libertarians incensed

12 May 2012
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Police seek bigger picture in using drones but libertarians incensed

Tom Hyland POLICE in Victoria are considering the use of drone surveillance aircraft, a move that has alarmed civil liberties advocates. Other police agencies, including the Australian Federal Police...

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Unmanned Aircraft Planned For Rilea

12 May 2012
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Unmanned Aircraft Planned For Rilea

TYLER GRAF Plans to fly unmanned surveillance aircraft through the skies of Clatsop County for training purposes are moving forward. The Oregon Army National Guard late last month met...

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