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 $$('div.d422').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });
SOURCE Boeing ST. LOUIS, June 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA) has received a three-year, $9.8 million contract from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to further develop and demonstrate technologies that will enable multiple small unmanned aerial vehicles to coordinate with each other and a manned airborne control station to more safely and effectively carry out...
Developers at the Open Source UAV autopilot, OpenPilot this week announced their intention to make the board a straight replacement for the Mikrocopter control board. This then removes the current 250m waypoint distance restriction and of course provides free navigation software for MK multicopters. Read more here http://wiki.openpilot.org/OP-Navi Bookmark It Hide Sites $$('div.d418').each( function(e) { e.visualEffect('slide_up',{duration:0.5}) });
Blue Bear Systems Research (BBSR), has been selected as a key member of the Northrop Grumman/Hybrid Air Vehicles team to develop a hybrid airship to assist allied forces in Afghanistan. The work comes as part of an unprecedented US Department of Defence contract to develop a Long Endurance Multi-intelligence Vehicle (LEMV). Read More on LEMV and Hybrid Air Vehicles The LEMV...
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 on government contracts. The probe...
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 pilots that translate their captured...
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 stimulate interest in technologies and...
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 in Iraq. Honeywell’s T-Hawk micro...
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 name, games. How they will...
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 Works division. I can’t help...
