Simlat Ltd. has been awarded a contract to deliver its advanced UAS Training and Simulation systems to FDF as part of Mini-UAS contract awarded to Aeronautics Ltd. Herzliya, Israel, March 24, 2013 – Simlat Ltd. was selected to provide a UAS Training Center including its high fidelity UAS training systems to the FDF, as part of the FDF Mini...
Well done Asctec still the worlds greatest multicopters! (Ed) Spectacular (f)light-show over London As a harbinger for the Paramount film “Star Trek – Into Darkness”, starting in May in Europe’s cinemas, last night a swarm of 30 mini-helicopters equipped with the LED lights drew the Star Trek logo into the skies over London. The choreography for the show was developed by Ars...
LONDON, Saturday 23rd March – As the UK prepares to go ’into darkness’ for WWF’s Earth Hour, Paramount Pictures is pleased to announce its support with a special ‘Star Trek’ themed light display which will dim as Earth Hour approaches. This amazing light show by Paramount, in conjunction with Ars Electonica Futurelab & Ascending Technologies, will see quadrocopters fly...
We see a classification number for this craft in the images name, AW-1038. How long before Mat Wellington has a model version working. Looking in the background to see if there is anything by Gary Gress lurking as well. He is probably the man with lots of thoughts about this platform. The hidden helicopter pilot in me is itching...
Cyberhawk Innovations provide specialist aerial inspection and surveying services for a range of industrial clients. The company has grown rapidly over the last year and with a strong order book we are looking to recruit a number of ROAV/UAS/ pilots. We are interested to hear from people with previous ROAV/UAS or model helicopter flying experience. In addition to flying experience, it would be beneficial...
Delft Dynamics’ project ASIMOV, “Autonomous Rapid Deployable Multicopter for Overview and Security”, is selected by the Dutch Ministry of Defence as best project proposal of a total of 44 submitted proposals by Dutch SMEs under the SBIR tender “Safe ground based actions and military operations in urban areas”. This research and development project will be executed in a period...
A free ESA app released today turns a popular iPhone-controlled ‘home drone’ into a spacecraft. The augmented reality game lets owners of Parrot AR.Drone quadcopters attempt dockings with a simulated International Space Station while flying their drones for real – in the process helping to improve robotic rendezvous methods. This new AstroDrone app is part of a scientific crowdsourcing...
Created with the usual Dassault pomp! Interesting none the less. In the words of wiki The nEUROn development, originally planned by Dassault as “AVE Grand Duc“, evolved into a European cooperation including Swedish Saab AB, Greek EAB, Swiss RUAG Aerospace, SpanishEADS CASA and Italian Alenia. As a “technology demonstrator”, only single vehicle will be produced to explore new operational concepts for a future generation...
Making waves (pun intended) Chris from Sky Futures tells sUAS News all about recent ship borne operations. Sky-Futures has recently taken an impressive leap forward in the commercial use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). Operating off the east coast of England aboard a wind turbine service support vessel, Sky-Futures flew one of their rotary UAS from the stern of...
Penzberg, January 2013. EMT has made another advance in the field of flight safety, which it has been researching and developing since 2004. Working in close cooperation with the BAAINBw* and engineering firm Spies, a second generation LIDAR Sense & Avoid sensor has been developed and tested. First flight tests incorporating object recognition and airborne avoidance were already successfully...
