Commercial
The Federal Aviation Administration authorized the Polk County Sheriff's Office to fly an unmanned aircraft armed with a camera from August 2009 to August 2010. The modified Easy Star ready-to-fly, radio-controlled plane was flown more than 400 feet above a portion of the Green Swamp,
After Boeing Aviation Innovation launched its Milestones in Aviation App, Lockheed Martin has launched its own iPad App entitled 'LM Tomorrow'. LM Tomorrow is a science and engineering app that provides insight into some of Lockheed Martin's most innovative technologies and how they work. From flying
Business
ESTEIO Engenharia e Aerolevantamentos S.A. and Instituto Tecnológico SIMEPAR signed a Technical Cooperation Agreement that visualizes the joint action of these companies in the market of mapping and monitoring with the use of UAS platform. UAS and Low Altitude Photogrammetry are shown as a set of techniques for collecting
Testing
IAI is making progress in the development of its butterfly-shaped UAS weighing just 20 grams - the smallest in its range so far. The new minuscule surveillance device can take colour pictures and is capable of a vertical take-off and hover flight, just like a helicopter.The insect-drone,
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. , along with SELEX Galileo (a Finmeccanica company) and Cobham Aviation Services (Cobham), demonstrated a new open payload architecture during the Sovereign Payload Capability Demonstration (SPCD) held at GA-ASI’s Gray Butte Flight Operations Facilities in Palmdale, California. The event included a live flight demonstration
Business
MAVinci's Spanish UAS distributor Grupo Acre presented SIRIUS I, a UAS for civil applications and specialized for “Orthophotos and Mapping” at UVEX 12 in Madrid. In order to carry out demo flights all UAS operators had to prove the abilities of their systems to the aviation authorities during
AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems now offers the Tac-SIS system to provide integrated aerial situational awareness for U.S. and international customers. Scalable and configurable, TacSIS builds upon AAI’s combat-proven One System. Remote Video Terminal (OSRVT) with a variety of communication and encryption component options. The Tac-SIS
Military
Based on the operationally-proven Skylark I Unmanned Aircraft System currently used by many coalition partners, the LE version increases the system’s operational range to 15 km and the endurance to approximately 3 hours. The system also features a unique gyroscopic-stabilized, gimbaled payload optimally integrated with algorithms derived
Commercial
The film industry is turning to UAS to produce exciting images at sensible prices. A beauty shot that used to be possible only with a noisy, polluting passenger helicopter can now be achieved with the flick of a thumb. The camera is mounted on an electric drone called a quadrocopter,
Federal Aviation Administration has been working to ensure the safe integration of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in the NAS. The FAA's sole mission and authority as it focuses on the integration of unmanned aircraft systems is safety. Already, the agency has achieved the first unmanned aircraft systems milestone
Business
Insitu, Inc. being awarded a $35,507,379 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-11-C-0061) for additional operational and maintenance services in support of the ScanEagle unmanned aircraft system. These services will provide electro-optical/infrared and mid-wave infrared imagery in support of
Events
Mary "Missy" Cummings, Professor, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology talk to Wired's Chris Anderson about the future of robots, UAS and tractors. Source: Wired