Adelaide based Nick Peppas of team CooeeUAV Outback Challenge entry has come up with an inventive method of attracting sponsorship. During the forthcoming Sheppard group Heli & UV Pacific 2010 exhibition attendees will be able to contribute towards advertising space on Mr Peppas UAV. The airframe is set to compete in the popular and ground breaking UAV search and...
A flock of small, unmanned air vehicles flies quietly into a city, maneuvering among the buildings. They communicate as they search for places to land, not on streets or flat rooftops but on the sides of buildings and under the eaves, where they can cling, bat or insect-like, in safety and obscurity. Upon identifying landing sites, each flier turns...
A very interesting podcast at DIYdrones, the project Andromeda team and their Outback Challenge 2010 attempt. Its a step on the way to something bigger I think. http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/podcast-episode-21-nima?xg_source=activity Bookmark It Hide Sites
Certainly one to watch in the 2010 Australian Outback Challenge, the team has designed their own autopilot and are now integrating it into their airframe. Good luck to them and all the other contenders! Follow built blog progress here Website here If the quality of the website is anything to go by it should be a cracking entry into...
Let us use UAVs in civilian airspace please…. The Mundus Group Inc. subsidiary AirStar has announced a Search and Rescue divison named UAV 4 Life. UAV 4 Life is a UAVTOL Unmanned air vehicle with Vertical Take Off and Landing capabilities that can fly out with every fire and rescue department and provide accurate visual details and thermal data...
Two Civil Air Patrol (CAP) aircraft have been fitted with a similar sensor turret as used by Predator aircraft. These Cessna aircraft will be used during exercises to train operators on the ground. Freeing up sparse real air frame time for more important duties. Manned aircraft now standing in for unmanned! Bookmark It Hide Sites
Organisers of the Outback Challenge have released the list of those entries that have made it through the various rounds of technical requirements. Well done to all of them. 1. Melbourne UAV 2. Team Galah 3. Team Heads Up UAV 4. Open UAS 5. Team Rocky 6. Team Javelin 7. Team Jatayu 8. QUT SRUAV09 9. Cooee Rescue 10....
A high-flying technology display helped celebrate the opening of Tech Town and inaugurate new space for the district’s anchor tenant, the University-led Institute for Development and Commercialization of Advanced Sensor Technology. August 24, 2009 – Drivers and pedestrians in downtown Dayton may have seen what looked like an abnormally high-flying kite Monday, Aug. 31. It was actually an unmanned...
From the Engineer Unmanned aerial vehicles are moving into the mainstream and being used in many civilian applications. Berenice Baker and Stuart Nathan report. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are the quintessential military system. Familiar as reconnaissance drones and even weapons systems, they have seen action in the Middle East and in other areas, and are an increasingly important component...
