An MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aircraft crashed Friday evening, according to a spokesman for the 49th Wing. Arlan Ponder with 49th Wing Public Affairs said the Reaper went down on base property at 6:45 p.m. as it approached for landing Friday. He said there was some speculation the aircraft hit a power line and caused power to go out on...
The Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group (CAC) xiàng lóng, “soaring dragon” has been seen out and about and may be undergoing flight trials. According to Wikipedia.. Xianglong is equipped with a jet engine mounted on top of the fuselage between the diamond shaped wings. According to Chinese media reports, Xianglong has a normal take-off weight of 750 kg and a mission payload...
Eish yet another acronym invented E-RPV, it must be Friday A solar-powered, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) soon will be rolling off the assembly line at a newly minted manufacturing plant in Albuquerque. Bye UAS (unmanned aircraft systems) will build a 20,000-square-foot assembly facility here early next year, said CEO John Brown. The company will hire up to 25 employees to...
Hurricane Irene caused widespread power outages that knocked out communications. Cell phone sites have emergency power, but after a period of time, backup batteries and generators began to fail. A catastrophic earthquake on the New Madrid Seismic Zone has the potential to cause damage over eight states. The FCC recognized that during the critical 72 hours after a disaster...
It had to happen, Opensource autopilots and simple electric flying platforms. An exotic mix. Its not that hard to make something just as clever as the grown up stuff. That said, hands up all those that think this is an FBI entrapment exercise? A 26-year-old Massachusetts man with a physics degree was arrested and charged Wednesday with plotting an...
Commencing in 2001 and completed in 2004, Mundus Group’s (pinksheets:MNDP) designated division Air Drone is currently a continuation of the 1st UAV VTOL prototype that was co-developed with strategic partner Roadable Aircraft Inc. and the US Navy under a 3 year Co-operative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA). The all electric ducted fan was an 81-inch ducted fan UAV VTOL...
Drone crashing in Somalia story hitting the wires, almost becoming a Sunday night occasion this. There must be lots of parts in the market over there. If its true the attrition rate in East Africa is pretty high. Could it mean smaller platforms are being used? Kismayo — Small surveillance aircraft known as Drone has been reported to have...
Edited and Translated by Yaochun, People’s Daily Online Beijing–The commercial unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) codenamed AH3N, which was independently developed by Anhua Agricultural Insurance Co., LTD, was granted a chartered flight certificate recently. It is the very first time in China and it marks the evolvement of China’s commercial UAVhas entered the systematic application phase, a historical new height,...
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA‑ASI), a leading manufacturer of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), tactical reconnaissance radars, and electro-optic surveillance systems, today announced that it has completed initial testing of a new UAS open payload architecture in its Poway, Calif., System Integration Lab (SIL). The testing demonstrated the ability to host third party-developed payload control software on existing airborne...
We thought we had seen it all but students from ETH Zurich have teamed up with Disney Research to create the first climbing and flying robot system. This is yet another perch and stare method, but in the words of its creators. Technology with entertainment factor – this is the principal object of project Paraswift. During one year we develop...
