Florida Today reports the mounting excitement in the emergency services community within the USA. They are getting themselves ready for flight, the pressure on the FAA continues. Perhaps marching off to some Army units to receive some training with their systems might be in order first for Police and Fire operators. Whats missing from all of the enthusiastic reporting...
Very sad but I guess inevitable had to happen one day. Being reported on hobby forums, last weekend (27./28.11.2010) somebody broke into the University of Bergen, Norway and stole three Paparazzi-equipped autonomous aircrafts/systems for atmospheric research based on the Multiplex Funjet. The break-in was very precisely targeted to only the systems that had been used in many measurement campaigns. Any information...
An unmanned Little Bird helicopter could fly nap-of-the-earth autonomously using software-enabled control (SEC) technology developed for unmanned air vehicles under a US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and US Air Force Research Laboratory project. The software enables a UAV to fly low, hugging the terrain, determining safe landing zones using vision-based algorithms and avoiding known and pop-up threats....
