Hats off to the CyberQuad company they are doing their best to get their products out there. Coastal patrol at tourist beaches would indeed be a great application. From In My Community SWIMMERS in the 2011 Cockburn Crawl at Rockingham Beach next weekend will be kept extra safe by a high-tech unmanned aerial vehicle hovering above the water. Race...
A wildfire’s thick black smoke blots out the sun, cloaking the area in a premature dusk. Glowing embers spiral up through the haze. A small camera-equipped aircraft skirts a wall of flames on a dangerous mission to record hot spots and track the fire’s progression. That is, it would be dangerous if an actual pilot was on board. But...
The University of North Dakota has teamed with Corsair Engineering to provide University students with cutting edge training systems for their education in Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). Students pursuing a UAS major at UND are using the ScanEagle UAS as an example platform to learn mission employment and operational techniques through the use of high-fidelity simulation. The ScanEagle simulator was...
MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (TSX: MDA), a provider of essential information solutions, announced today that it has signed contract amendments related to its Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) surveillance service for the Australian Defence Force. The first amendment provides authorization to provide additional hours of UAV surveillance operations that will support deployed Australian Defence Forces inAfghanistan. The second amendment...
Tom Kaneshige An iPad app that may soon play a pivotal role connecting soldiers on the street with airplanes hovering high above will be shown for the first time next month at the National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas. The app, created by Harris Corp., a tech vendor with $6 billion in annual revenue, will let U.S....
A Northrop Grumman -produced Global Hawk high altitude unmanned aircraft began a series of flights over the Pacific Ocean on Feb. 11 as part of a campaign to study atmospheric rivers. Known as Winter Storms and Pacific Atmospheric Rivers (WISPAR), the research is being done by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to improve winter storm forecasts. The purpose of the WISPAR...
American law enforcers continue the rush to acquire sUAS technology. During a news conference today, Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott unveiled the newest addition to the Department’s efforts in making our communities safer – A.I.R. Aerial Intelligence and Response. Intelligence gathering, surveillance, search and rescue or special responses to critical incidents are now made easier through the use of radio controlled (RC) technology....
Twenty four developers from the OpenPilot project are meeting today in Portugal for their first conference. It comes ahead of the open source autopilot groups first hardware release the Copter Control (CC) board. Software engineers have flown in from Australia and America and several European countries. The team will be polishing code and consuming ale as well as mapping...
The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International is coordinating an effort to bring systems together that might be of assistance to Japan. A number of AUVSI members have inquired about information on how to offer assistance to Japan as the country deals with the crisis left by the earthquake and tsunami. The Japanese government has asked for assistance specifically...
You heard it here first folks! According to Popular Mechanics:- The Navy is considering using experimental unmanned helicopters to assist Japan in recovering from its 9.0 earthquake. A spokesman for Lockheed Martin says meetings are underway that could result in enlisting the unmanned K-MAX helicopter in disaster relief. These craft could deliver cargo to hard-to-reach places—or even to subdue...
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., March 21, 2011 — TiaLinx, Inc., a developer of remotely controlled mini-unmanned aerial and ground vehicles integrated with mm-wave miniaturized radars, today announced the launch of the Phoenix40-A. The mini-UAV system is capable of performing dual functions as a motion detector as well as probing for breathing of a hiding person in a compound. The mini-UAV...
Interesting precision landing in Spain 10 knot crosswind. More about the E500 X-VISION from http://www.elimco.com Complete observing system mid-range, lightweight, portable. With an efficient aerodynamic design, the E500 X-VISION, is ready for high-altitude flights in adverse weather conditions, with an operating range of 60 km with a range of 3 hours. It is equipped with a full suite of specialized...
The Manichai Daily news reports that the Japanese government has in its possession video footage of the Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant taken by a U.S. military reconnaissance drone, but has yet to release the footage to the public, sources have revealed. The footage taken from an RQ-4 Global Hawk drone was passed on to the Japanese government...
MANCHING, Germany, 19 March 2011. The Bundeswehr Technical Centre (WTD) 61 approved Cassidian’s ParaLander ram-air cargo parachute system, which is classified as an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), for operational deployment. The German armed forces procured five ParaLander systems, which are now to be deployed for missions in Afghanistan. ParaLander consists of a ram-air parachute and the control unit, which are...
Moving ever closer to the integration of UAS into the civilian airspace system in America. Air Traffic Controllers received this updated document last week. Information and interim guidance on air traffic policies and prescribes procedures for the planning coordination, and services involving the operation of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in the NAS. During the past few years, UA technology has been developing...
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. Less than a month after completing the first flight of the U.S. Navy’s X-47B UCAS-Demonstration aircraft, flight test engineers from Northrop Grumman Corporation and the Navy have successfully completed the aircraft’s second and third flights The flights, both conducted at Edwards Air Force Base, mark the beginning of a process called envelope expansion during which...
News channels throughout the world are showing images of manned helicopters flying to drop water on the failing nuclear power station at Fukushima Daiichi Japan. Its just the dull, dangerous or dirty task that unmanned systems will be very good at in near the future. The multi-mission K-MAX is a 6,000-pound power lifter that maintains performance in hot/high environments. It...
By Staff Sgt. Kyle Richardson, 41st Fires Brigade, PAO FORT HOOD, Texas — It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s actually both, sort of. Soldiers from the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division and the 41st Fires Brigade re-certified on the Army’s smallest unmanned aerial vehicle, the Raven RQ-11B. The master Raven trainers from the 41st Fires Brigade trained...
Azerbaijan and Israeli firms have formed a joint venture to build Israeli designed UAVs in Azerbaijan. Two models of UAVs will be built. One is a lightweight model, the Orbiter 2. This one weighs 9.5 kg (21 pounds) and its battery powered motor can keep it in the air for about three hours per sortie. Maximum altitude is 3,200 meters...
Claims from the FARS News Agency of new unmanned developments in Iran. Of interest images of the DraganFlyer X6 are being used to accompany the story. We doubt very much that the Canadian company has sold airframes to Iran knowingly. It might just be that the Iranian Students News Agency kicked off the link. TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran unveiled a home-made...
While most electronic components benefit from decreased size, antennas—whether in a cell phone or on an aircraft—suffer limitations in gain, efficiency, system range, and bandwidth when their size is reduced below a quarter-wavelength. “Recent attention has been directed toward producing antennas by screen-printing, inkjet printing, and liquid metal-filled microfluidics in simple motifs, such as dipoles and loops,” explained Jennifer...
BAE Systems and Dassault Aviation have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate exclusively on the preparation and submission of a joint proposal to the UK and French Ministries of Defence for the design, development, production and support of a Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS). The MoU will enable the two companies to establish...
The international $50,000 prize UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) Challenge – Outback Rescue competition held in approved airspace at Kingaroy, Queensland, will become a biennial event from 2011. Challenge co-founder and ARCAA director, QUT’s Professor Rod Walker said the changes were being made to the Challenge to give search and rescue teams more time to gain autonomous flight experience and...
Sinclair Community College is partnering with two Dayton based industry leaders to offer training for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Woolpert, a national leader in geospatial data collection and analysis, the University of Dayton’s Institute for the Development and Commercialization of Advanced Sensor Technology (IDCAST), one of the nation’s most prominent advanced sensor related research and development centers, and Sinclair...
WILMINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS–(Marketwire – March 15, 2011) - IBC Advanced Alloys Corp. (TSX VENTURE:IB) (“IBC” or the “Company”) announces that it has signed a Development and Technical Services Agreement (the “Agreement”) with the US Military’s Army Research Laboratory (“ARL”) in Aberdeen, Maryland, and the Navy’s Tactical Multi-Mission Unmanned Aerial Systems Program, to evaluate the Beralcast® family of ultra-lightweight beryllium aluminum...
Get ready for two months of careful flying if you are within quite and area of South East England for the 2012 Olympics. Very impressed that sUAS along with model aircraft form the first group mentioned in the recommendations for the restricted area. We have arrived as a known group! Flight in the prohibited area will be, well prohibited!...
An interesting story for those like me that occasionally took a lonely drive around an airfield with a tape player sounding out distress calls, shotgun and very pistol. The bird control unit (BCU) carry out an important role at airfields across the world. They use a variety of methods and equipment to scare birds away from the airfield and...
