The marketing campaign for the Parrot AR.drone continues to get more extreme. Breaking several sections of the Air Navigation Order the marketers have flown over head Guards preparing to march in the centre of London. Article 138 applies to all weight categories and stipulates that any person operating an aircraft shall not recklessly or negligently cause...
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Published on the 25th of August and due to become law on the 25th of October 2010 UAS operators now have clear requirements for incident reporting. NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD 49 CFR Part 830 Notification and Reporting of Aircraft Accidents or Incidents and Overdue Aircraft, and Preservation of Aircraft Wreckage, Mail, Cargo, and Records...
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1. Melbourne UAV 2. MUROC Wild-Hogs 3. OpenUAS 4. Unmanned Innovation 5. University of Sydney UAV Team 6. AusUAV 7. Swinburne UAV 8. Latitude38UAV 9. Stratos 10. Robota 11. Team Skylight 12. Unmanned Aircraft Systems Engineering Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d963').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });
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An active community is growing fast modifying the Parrot ARdrone here Most exciting development Linux based navigation. We have picked up a couple of interesting posts, Android is still not supported. Several people have had motors die and there is at least one fly away reported. The next logical step for hackers has to...
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Team Rocky and Rescue Robotics have confirmed that they are out. A shame, still it will give them longer to prepare for next year. Monday seems to happen three days earlier in Australia than here! Dear Team Rocky The UAV Challenge Technical Committee has now met and I am afraid that I have to...
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Mick Molloy, member of the technical committee for the Outback Challenge reports that out of the 21 entrants for the Search and Rescue Challenge only 12 have made it through the Deliverable 2 stage. Deliverable 2: Flight Readiness Review (Technical Report and Video) A technical report (Section 6.2) must be provided. The underlying objective of this report...
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Denel Dynamics is formally denying it has supplied tactical surveillance unmanned aerial vehicles or target drones to Iran. That country recently launched a turbojet-powered drone, called the “Karrar.” This led to speculation that it might be a modified version of the Skua, the high-speed target drone, developed and produced by Denel Dynamics. “There is...
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Aurora Flight Sciences has been awarded a contract by the United States Department of Defense to build an unmanned vehicle — the Orion Unmanned Aerial System — which is developed at Aurora’s Columbus facility — for the Medium Altitude Global ISR and Communications program, Republican U.S. Sens. Roger Wicker and Thad Cochran announced today....
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AeroVironment, Inc. Announced today that it has received a contract delivery order valued at $35,265,662 for digital Puma(R) All Environment (AE) unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), spares and training services. The equipment and services were procured under the existing USSOCOM All Environment Capable Variant (AECV) indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract. Work is scheduled to be...
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Not everybody’s taste in music but a creative use of Google Earth and Street view adding animation to addresses selected by the user. It does not take much of a leap of imagination to make the link between unmanned aerial imagery collections and viewing of scenes via pre determined tracks. The project, which Google says...
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