In this year’s Search & Rescue Outback Challenge, teams will be judged on a variety of factors. The judging begins months before the actual event itself. By the time the teams show up at Kingaroy Airport in October 2012 they will have to have passed two “go/no-go” qualifying/disqualifying decisions by the competition organisers and will have already been awarded...
Israel, February 6th 2012 …Innocon’s MicroFalcon mini UAS has completed flight tests at extreme weather conditions. The MicroFalcon operated successfully under a snow storm at -15 Celsius, and a 35knt wind velocity. “We are proud of the MicroFalcon mini UAV system. It has demonstrated its long endurance, wide-area surveillance capability to detect targets in all operational environments – in...
The Hermes 900 is Elbit Systems’ next-generation multi-mission, multi-payload Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS). The Hermes 900 is a natural extension of the successful Hermes 450, which has a track record of over 300,000 accumulated flight hours. Among the key capabilities offered by the Hermes 900 are longer endurance, flight altitude of 30,000 ft. and...
Chethan Kumar, Bangalore, Feb 3 2012,DHNS Fighter squadrons may be trimmed to meet need Increasing the dependence on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or remotely piloted vehicles (RPVs) like former Air Chief P.V. Naik terms, is not an “out of the box” concept for the Indian Air Force (IAF) anymore. In what would be a significant move once it comes...
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – Army helicopter pilots will soon be able to train virtually anywhere, at any time, thanks to a new training device demonstrated last week at UAH. Team members with the AH-64D Apache Longbow Block III program gave a demonstration Thursday of the Apache Block III National Airspace trainer (AB3NAT). Designed to act as a “surrogate trainer” for...
Looks like people have been following Chris Mc Nairs work, the wingtips of this wing have his tale tale cut outs. The Devil Ray from Chris also comes with variable length wings. Its not quite as big but we have seen a new larger high aspect wing coming out off the Mc Nair stable. In exclusive coverage, Aviation Week has revealed...
A research team from Clarkson University is developing an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) called the Clarkson Research Aerial Vehicle for Experimental Needs (RAVEN) to gather wind turbulence data. The three member team consists of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering professors, Suresh Dhaniyala, Lin Tian and Pier Marzocca along with members from six companies and institutions in the Europe and US....
MTC Industries and Research Carmiel Ltd. – a leading supplier of electro-mechanical products and services to Aerospace, Defense, and UAV Industries – will introduce its Redundant Electro-Mechanical Rotary Servo Actuator (ERSA) for UAVs at the Singapore Airshow, February 14-19 at the Changi Exhibition Centre, Booth #N51. ERSA’s unique fail-safe system significantly reduces the incidence of UAV flight control failures....
Knoxville, USA – John Reece Roth, a former professor of electrical engineering at the University of Tennessee (UT) in Knoxville, began serving a four-year prison sentence for his September 2008 convictions. Roth had been on bond pending his appeals, all of which were unsuccessful. He self-surrendered to the federal correctional facility in Ashland, Ky. Roth was convicted at a...
John H. Campbell, USACE JACKSONVILLE, Fla. ”All right guys, going into take-off mode. You are hot!” Everyone aboard the airboat grows quiet. It’s the moment they’ve been anticipating after hours of preparation that started shortly after dawn on this late November day. Biologist Jon Morton has been leading the team through pre-operational checks. “Three…two…one…launch!” The pilot flips a switch...
Author Jay Gundlach is no stranger to Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). He helped develop over 17 UAS at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and served as Vice President of Advanced Development for Insitu before joining Aurora Flight Sciences as Director of Conceptual Design. Dr. Gundlach has now completed his first textbook, titled “Designing Unmanned Aircraft Systems: A Comprehensive Approach,”...
An interesting flight that puts the cat amongst the pigeons, or superhero. I wonder what the AMA line will be, payment for services, and flight within controlled airspace. The video will no doubt be shown great interest by the FAA. It has already received more than 1.5 million hits. Speaking to Matt Mc Daniel at Yahoo Movies James Percelay, co-founder of...
The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), that awed viewers in the Bollywood hit ”3 Idiots”, has been officially inducted into the paramilitary forces. The Border Security Force (BSF) and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) are using the drone, titled ‘Netra’, in counter-insurgency operations. The autonomous UAV for surveillance and reconnaissance was inducted into the paramilitary forces last month while...
MIT, Anna University, Department of Aerospace Engineering’s Division of Avionics successfully tested the DHAKSHA- mini unmanned aircraft system (UAS), will provide the public safety and rescue operations with real-time video and stable, high-resolution imagery said Dr.K.Senthil Kumar,Project Director,Mini UAV’s. He also informed that the short-range tactical rotorcraft system can be made available immediately when first responders need it. DHAKSHA’s compact...
LAWRENCE, Kansas (January 30, 2012) – Pulse Aerospace, a Lawrence, KS based unmanned aircraft systems developer, released their latest product, the PA-01 Vapor helicopter unmanned aircraft system (UAS), at the PIPELINE Innovator of the Year Event in Overland Park, KS on January 26, 2012. Bill Donovan, President of Pulse Aerospace, was selected into the 2011 group of high-growth...
With the FAA in the US trying to integrate Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) into the National Air Space (NAS), the question of how UAS pilots will be trained or get degrees, when this happens, is a question on almost everyone’s mind in the industry. The first college to have a full degree for UAS was the University of North...
No injuries in crash of Heron TP near Tel Nof Air Force Base; IAF launches probe into crash of “UAV that can reach Iran.” The Heron TP, Israel’s most advanced unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) crashed Sunday morning during a test flight near the Tel Nof Air Force Base in central Israel. The Israeli Air Force says technical failure or human...
Northrop Grumman expressed disappointment over the U.S. Defense Department’s decision to scrub the Global Hawk Block 30 UAV program. “The Pentagon announced … that it is planning to cancel the Global Hawk Block 30 program and plans to perform this mission with the U-2 aircraft,” the company said in a news release. “Northrop Grumman is disappointed with the Pentagon’s...
New UAS rules on the table in Germany Author: Mathias Bölinger / mz Editor: Nancy Isenson For hobby spy-enthusiasts, they have been available in Germany for quite a while: For 300 euros ($393), you can pick up a drone at most electronics stores. It’s a model-sized helicopter that can be fitted with a camera and used to film...
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Insitu, Inc., Bingen, Wash., is being awarded a $21,048,058 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-11-C-0061) to exercise an option for operational and maintenance services in support of the ScanEagle unmanned aerial systems. These services will provide electro-optical/infrared and mid-wave infrared imagery in support of U.S. Marine Corps operations in Operation Enduring Freedom to provide real-time imagery and...
Earlier this month Iran stated that they would create a model of the RQ 170 Sentinel and send it back to Washington. The RQ 170 also known as the Beast of Kandahar went down behind enemy lines just before Christmas 2011. President Obama said at the time “We’ve asked for it back. We’ll see how the Iranians respond,” Iran...
Two U.S. companies have teamed to develop beyond-line-of-sight satellite communications for unmanned aircraft systems. The alliance between AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems of Maryland and California’s ViaSat Inc., will integrate the companies’ command-and-control and satellite communications expertise. It also brings Overwatch into the mix. Overwatch, like AAI, is a Textron Systems company specializing in and intelligence solutions for the U.S....
BANGALORE: Flight trials of Micro and Mini Air Vehicles designed and developed to meet many requirements including countering low intensity conflicts, counter terrorism and for rescue operations during natural calamities, were conducted at Hoskote near here, DRDO said on Wednesday. These small vehicles are capable of flying in full autonomous mode and transmitting live day and night video to...
Marines witnessed the first flight of the service’s newest small unmanned aircraft Jan. 22 at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, Calif. As part of the RQ-21A Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System (STUAS) Early Operational Capability (EOC), personnel from Marine Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron (VMU) 2 and 3 and Insitu operators exercised the current configuration...
The Union of Information Technologies Enterprises (UITE) has announced the first ‘Unmanned Aerial Vehicle’ contest in Armenia. Currently, unmanned aerial vehicles provide road patrol, monitoring of ecological issues, for example, referring to pollution of air and rivers, mapping, video recording and even an intelligence service. “This has a military and even healthcare significance,” says UITE Executive Director Karen Vardanyan....
A national research team led by the University of Colorado Boulder is embarking on a two-year, multi-pronged effort to better understand the impacts of environmental factors associated with the continuing decline of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean. The team will use tools ranging from unmanned aircraft and satellites to ocean buoys in order to understand the characteristics and...
