The Mesa County Sheriff’s Department has purchased a small drone aircraft for $14,000 to use in investigations and in search and rescue operations. Sheriff’s officers demonstrated the 4-foot-long, 9-pound vehicle Friday. The plane can stay airborne for an hour, fly at an altitude of 400 feet and send video and infrared images to ground controllers. “If we get the...
AeroVironment Introduces the Qube Small Unmanned Aircraft System for Public Safety Professionals; Announces Test and Evaluation Program • First solution tailored to law enforcement, first response and other public safety missions from the leading supplier of small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) • Based on proven small UAS experience with hundreds of thousands of operating hours supporting U.S. and allied...
Researchers and responders from The Texas A&M University System have received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to create a visual “common ground” between operators and responders who use micro and small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for search and rescue. Following principles in how people know what other people are talking about in conversations, visual common ground...
Very sad news from Australia, our thoughts go out to the family and friends of Professor Walker. It is with great sadness that we must inform friends of the UAV Challenge that Professor Rodney Walker, one of the Challenge’s founders has passed away. Rod was a respected professor at Queensland University of Technology, the Director of the Australian Research...
An American start up company from Arizona continues to grow and make the right connections with an interesting circular winged platform. Chris Mc Nair from AttoPilot sent us news of a very successful AUVSI 2011. AttoPilot International (API) have teamed up with AeroBat Aviation in a cooperative partnership to produce high quality low cost sUAS and RPA systems. API is...
Working with Adaptive Flight, Insitu launched its Inteptor at ALEA 2011 the platform looks just like the Hornet. Sikorsky Innovations, the technology development organization of Sikorsky Aircraft Corp, last November announced that it had made an equity investment in Adaptive Flight. The investment, in part, was directed toward developing technologies that allow piloted and unpiloted aircraft to work together,...
Following on the heals of the Murdoch iPad based newspapers flight over Tuscaloosa tabloid news channel CNN have jumped in. The FAA really does need to be issuing advice to media outlets. Could it be that some bigger supplier is pulling strings behind the scenes to force the NAS issue ahead of the NRPM release? We suppose they will argue...
A handy tool for sUAS operators who face a bewildering array of complex products to use in the post flight production of mapping images. Google have launched an enterprise product, Google Earth Builder, that should be available by the end of August 2011. No prices are revealed yet. Imagine a search and rescue or disaster scene where multiple sUAS...
Senator Kent Conrad today visited the University of North Dakota’s Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems and noted how Grand Forks has quickly become a world-renowned center for unmanned aerial vehicles research, education and training. “As UAS operations play an ever-increasing role, there will be an even greater need to develop the technology to support these systems for our military...
The airframes sent by Helipse are already flying over Fukushima Daiichi. Three airframes were dispatched from France last week at the request of Tokyo Electric Power. One of the airframes, the HE300 has a large load carrying capacity, greater than 20 kg . It was designed to meet specific missions such as, the carriage of professional camera, thermal camera cooled,...
