Food delivery seems to be the most popular civil UA task by far! This new food drop bought to you by Detroit multirotor operators iTVDetroit. A bag of Doritos flies to a couple of girls that judging by their figures don’t…
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Red Rocks Amphitheater mapped by UAS
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Jean Pierre from DroneMapper writes to sUAS News:- Amazing day in Colorado for a photogrammetry mission with Falcon UAV over Red Rocks Amphitheater. At 6,450 feet above sea level, Red Rocks Park is a unique transitional zone where the Great Plains meet…
New Scientist:- Moth navigation probed to improve micro-drone flight
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Sara Reardon It turns out moths are far better at video games than we might have thought. When navigating through a virtual forest, hawkmoths determine their route ahead of time depending on how much of the forest they can see.…
QGroundControl and flight recorder bring autonomous flight to AR.Drone
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Just like waiting for a bus, not one but two stories about the AR.drone 2.0 come along at once. Using the new 4GB flight recorder announced last week at CES. A USB GPS and memory in a box device. The…
Pushing the AR.drone
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An AR.drone pimping company, Dronetec has been out and about enjoying the snow currently blanketing most of the UK at the moment. The version 2 AR.drone is adapted to be flown from a standard RC controller and images are from…
New Study Shows UAS Integration Could Net Oklahoma Nearly 600 New Jobs in First Three Years
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Hundreds, and Perhaps Thousands, More Jobs Could Come to Oklahoma by 2025 OKLAHOMA CITY – Governor Mary Fallin, Secretary of Science and Technology Stephen McKeever and Michael Toscano, president & CEO of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI),…
Mark Blanks named K-State’s UAS Program Manager.
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Natalie Blair SALINA, Kan. — Mark Blanks is the new program manager of Kansas State University’s unmanned aircraft systems program. Blanks is charged with coordinating the nonacademic aspects of the UAS integration program. He will help establish the strategic program…
Sagetech, ING Robotic Aviation Demonstrate “Sense and Avoid” Capabilities for UAS
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For 90 minutes, a 10-kilogram Serenity UAV, designed and operated by ING Robotic Aviation of Ottawa, flew above the Casselman Aerodrome along with of a manned Harvard Mark IV, a fixed-wing, single-engine aircraft operated by Canada’s National Research Council.…
SBG Systems introduces Ekinox Series, a new family of MEMS-based Tactical Grade Inertial Systems.
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Rueil-Malmaison, France – SBG Systems presents Ekinox Series, a brand new product range of tactical grade inertial systems which brings robust and cost-effective MEMS to the Fiber Optic Gyro (FOG) level. This series consists of two ITAR Free models; the…
Flying Test Bed: New Aerial Platform Supports Development of Lightweight Sensors for UAVs
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A research team at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is developing an airborne testing capability for sensors, communications devices and other airborne payloads. This aerial test bed, called the GTRI Airborne Unmanned Sensor System (GAUSS), is based on an…
