Outback Challenge entry, Project Andromeda have unveiled a slightly modified airframe for the September UAV search and rescue challenge. Read more at their blog http://www.projectandromeda.com.au/blog/ Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d422').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });
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SOURCE Boeing ST. LOUIS, June 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA) has received a three-year, $9.8 million contract from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to further develop and demonstrate technologies that will enable multiple small unmanned aerial vehicles to coordinate with each other and a manned airborne control station to more...
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Developers at the Open Source UAV autopilot, OpenPilot this week announced their intention to make the board a straight replacement for the Mikrocopter control board. This then removes the current 250m waypoint distance restriction and of course provides free navigation software for MK multicopters. Read more here http://wiki.openpilot.org/OP-Navi Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d418').each( function(e)...
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The Associated Press MONROVIA, Calif. — Defense contractor AeroVironment Inc. said Friday that the Justice Department is investigating its billing practices. The company, which designs and produces unmanned aircraft systems for the military, said that investigators from the agency’s civil fraud section are looking at billing rates for maintenance work and time and materials...
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SAN DIEGO, June 15 — /PRNewswire/ — Forging a better connection between human and machine has long been the inspiration for internationally acclaimed industrial designer Vladymir Rogov. With his latest success, he faced the challenge of improving the interface between Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), one of the military’s most strategic tools, and the human...
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by Tony Rubino F-22 Combined Test Force 6/16/2010 – EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — Fresno State engineering students gained valuable flight test experience as they demonstrated their unmanned aerial vehicle project June 11 to several Air Force Flight Test Center engineering representatives. The Lyles College of Engineering at CSU Fresno received funding to...
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Hover and Stare Capability Provides Real-Time Surveillance PARIS, June 14, 2010 — Honeywell (NYSE: HON) announced that its T-Hawk™ Micro Air Vehicle, the only fielded unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with hover and stare surveillance capability, has recorded its 10,000th flight since introduction. The 10,000th flight was part of an Explosive Ordinance Disposal evaluation exercise...
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In a slick high profile launch at the Electronic Entertainment Expo. The annual video game conference and show at the Los Angeles Convention centre the French Parrot company launched there quadrocopter. Expected to come in for less than $300 the camera equipped quad is tasked with playing Augmented Reality the AR part of the...
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Slightly off topic for this space as they are not small, but an announcement yesterday by Northrop Grumman of $517 million order for three airships is great news for the UK UAS sector. Hybrid Air Vehicles and Northrop won the long-endurance multi-intelligence vehicle (LEMV) programme despite a strong rival bid led by Lockeed Martin Skunk...
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On Tuesday 8st June, 2010 ZALA AERO officially launched its new VTOL ZALA 421-21 with its unique six rotor design. The unmanned complex based on the helicopter UAV ZALA 421-21 is designed for remote landing and monitoring at altitude 10-1000m at a distance of 5km from the ground control station with maximum endurance of...
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