The Northrop Grumman Corporation built X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator has successfully completed its historic first flight from Naval Air Station Patuxent (Pax) River. The 36-minute flight — the first for the tailless, strike-fighter-sized aircraft since it was transported to the Navy base in June from Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. — was successfully completed on July 29...
This paper is meant to enlighten people on possible environmental related uses that unmanned aircraft systems are doing presently, and dispel pre-conceptions that UAS can only be used for martial (military and police) or spying (movies and espionage) uses. The topics that will be covered in this paper to teach people are farming, fire, hurricane studies, flooding, oil exploration,...
2011 Unmanned Aircraft Systems’ Remote Sensing Technology Used Against Bark Beetles in National Forests Brett Whalin This paper goes over the growing problem of bark beetles destroying North America’s forests. It first goes over the life of the beetles and the current methods of fighting them, in order to give the reader ideas on how they can be...
Yatish Yadav In the second week of December, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flew over the Maoist-hit areas of Dantewada district in Chhattisgarh, picking up images of village dwellings and human movement. At the National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO) control room the information was treated as a major breakthrough since the drones deployed in the area had so far...
On 28th Sept., the handover ceremony of the first emergency monitoring vehicle of national geographic information was held in Nanning, Guanxi. Vice Minister of the Ministry of National Land and Resources (MNLR) and Director General of SBSMG Xu Deming attended the ceremony and delivered a speech. Secretary of CPC committee of CASM Li Yongchun, Vice president of CASM Xin...
Waterloo, CANADA – While NATO countries fly unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) high above Libya, none of these UAVs, or the vital intelligence they provide, was available to the Libyans fighting to free their country – they were fighting blind. So, they got one of their own. It can now be disclosed that the Libyan rebels have been using the Aeryon...
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16, 2011 AUVSI, Booth #738 — FreeWave Technologies, manufacturer of the most reliable, high-performance spread spectrum and licensed radios for critical data transmission, today announced its radios for government and defense applications have logged more than one million hours of flight time since the company began shipping its first military radio in 1997. The one million milestone...
By Chris Haddox When Boeing’s hydrogen-powered unmanned airborne system (UAS) Phantom Eye takes to the skies for its first flight later this summer, it will be the first Boeing program to sport the new livery that represents Phantom Works, its employees and the unlimited possibilities of things to come for the organization in the future. Phantom Works President Darryl...
The U.S. Navy/Northrop Grumman/U.S. Air Force flight test team tasked with evaluating the performance of the X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) carrier demonstration aircraft has been awarded the 2011 James S. McDonnell Award for Outstanding Team Achievement in the Field of Flight Test Engineering by the Society of Flight Test Engineers (SFTE). The team was recognized for testing innovations related...
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio, 14 Aug. 2011. Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) designers at Northrop Grumman Corp. Aerospace Systems sector in San Diego are joining the U.S. Air Force Sand Dragon UAV program to defeat improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and other roadside bombs. Northrop Grumman won a $26.2 million contract Friday for the Air Force Sand Dragon B program to develop and deploy a UAV with...
