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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Off topic but something to be appreciated by all pilots that pass by. The folks at Jeppesen who create departure and arrival plates for airfields around the world have honoured Capt Sully Sullenberger with his own plate. No doubt this chart will be flown in many cockpits and grace the walls of flying club...
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I’m not sure if thats the intended name or not, but thats whats being used. It represents the largest platform so far to be offered for sale from China, a country that’s big enough to support a UAS industry all on its own. Many people are being stung with low quality airframes and autopilots that seem...
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Not unmanned but of interest. COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – A camera mounted to a police helicopter in Ohio fell off mid-flight, striking at least three vehicles in a parking lot. No one on the ground was hurt when the infrared camera valued at roughly $100,000 came crashing down around noon Wednesday in Columbus. One...
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