Archive for October, 2009

Lets hope this is not the answer to colony collapse or an April fools joke. Researchers at Harvard have been awarded 10 million dollars, to design a bee colony. More information http://robobees.seas.harvard.edu/ »

Ascending technologies will demonstrate their AscTec Falcon 8 in Shropshire on the 22nd of October, Mike Smith from FlyingScotsCam is looking forward to the event, “The octocopter can lift more for longer, and has the ability to survive an engine failure”. Weather permitting, it is Autumn after all in Europe, sUASnews will be... »

Hailing from Switzerland Jaron conceived and developed this very handy UAS autopilot test tool more than a year ago. It works so well that its not surprising that its hitting the software download sites. Best of all, its free. http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Math-Scientific/UAV-Playground.shtml »

Rotomotion’s Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) was the only UAS to conduct operations at the DSEi conference, successfully completing all ten flights using its SR20 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). Over 26,000 people attended DSEi 2009, including Prince Michael of Kent and the Minister of Defense. In spite of strong winds during the event, ASM Europe LTD conducted... »

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... »

Soldiers training in California before being deployed to Afganistan, a MOD promotional video. The troops are flying a Lockheed Martin Desert Hawk 3, a 1.2m wingspan sUAS capable of lifting 1KG for 90 minutes. »

ALEXANDRIA, Va. | CenTauri Solutions, LLC (CenTauri) announced that it was awarded a contract from the Department of Defense (DoD) to conduct a demonstration of the operational feasibility and military effectiveness of integrating an advanced, lightweight, high-definition electro-optical sensor with an unintentional electromagnetic emissions sensor system on an autonomous, vertical take-off and landing unmanned... »

UAV Technology Enables Rapid Aerial Chemical Detection and Tracking Edgewood, MD, 5 October 2009 – Smiths Detection today announces the successful creation and demonstration of an unmanned aircraft chemical detection and identification system capable of warning troops against chemical warfare agents. The detection and identification system, able to fit in the interchangeable nose cone of... »

Getting ready for its first flight the 80kg jet powered sUAS, Demon the result of a five year research program by 10 UK universities is unique in having no conventional control surfaces. Although quite how that will work we are not sure!  The 2.7m wingspan Demon the result of £6.5 million programme jointly funded... »

The record attempt was made by a group of graduate students who took a course this spring in the Aero/Astro Department at Stanford University. This year the goal for the course was to design a small UAV to beat the remote control altitude record (~11, 000 ft). There were four teams of 4-5 students... »