Commercial
The Federal Aviation Administration is expected to soon green light the use of small unmanned aircraft by emergency services. Some sheriffs' departments in the Northwest are showing interest in these aircraft. A booth rented by Prioria Robotics drew a crowd this week at the 2012 Partners in Emergency Preparedness
Business
AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems, announced that it has won the competitive Mid-Endurance Unmanned Aircraft Systems (MEUAS) II award from the US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM). The three-year award, valued at just under $600 million, includes support operations using AAI's Aerosonde Small Unmanned Aircraft System (sUAS). Total
Commercial
Techies in Silicon Valley are sending the three-to-six foot wide unmanned aircraft, guided by computers, radios and soon cell-phones, to survey fields, capture action shots from the air or follow them around to snap photos at optimal angles.About their only constraints: a 400-foot ceiling for
Military
A senior Iranian military commander claims Iran’s stealth surveillance aircraft photograph US aircraft carriers and other warships cruising the waters off Iran. Commander of Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya Air Defense Base Brigadier General Farzad Esmaili said that the remotely-controlled aircraft operated by the Iranian Army as well
Commercial
The State of Hawaii purchased an unmanned surveillance aircraft last year to patrol the skies over Honolulu Harbour but the aircraft can’t be flown because of heavy air traffic in the area. The $75,000 aircraft was delivered last June – six months after Hawaii Reporter disclosed that the state
Testing
CAE and Aeronautics have announced that the first series of flights of the Miskam unmanned aircraft system (UAS) have been conducted successfully over the past several weeks at the UAS Centre of Excellence (Centre d’excellence des drones) located at Alma airport in Quebec, Canada. The demonstration flights represent the
Testing
An Australian named Chris Malloy has built a Hoverbike from motorbike parts, which he claims can fly at 173mph at an altitude of 3,000 metres. With a 1170 cc 4-stroke engine delivering 80 kW driving two ducted propellers, the inventor of the Hoverbike, Chris Malloy, says with its
A consortium of the Wright State Research Institute and area companies will create 50 full-time jobs with an average wage of about $90,000 a year to work with Wright-Patterson Air Force Base to study human performance. The advanced-degree jobs, in areas such as the neurosciences, will
Testing
The US Marine Corps made history on December 17, 2011, by flying a cargo UAS in a war zone. Controllers on the ground flew a K-MAX unmanned helicopter from Camp Dwyer, Afghanistan, to Camp Payne in Helmand province, ferrying 3,500 pounds of supplies to fellow Marines. Since that
Military
The Georgian Ministry of Defence has produced a video [below] of President Mikheil Saakashvili unveiling Georgia's first domestically produced unmanned aircraft. The aircraft is designed for reconnaissance and surveillance, with a photo and infrared camera, and Saakashvili said that it being home-grown means that "no one
Military
The IDF Ground Forces Command is developing a miniature radar system that would link ground troops directly to UAS operations. IDF battalions and brigades rely on unmanned aircraft as well as some electro-optic land systems for reconnaissance missions, but they are not equipped with radars, due to their relatively
Commercial
Starting April 15, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) will use the help of unmanned aircraft equipped with closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras for its traffic monitoring system. MMDA Chairman Francis Tolentino has announced that they would start testing the aircraft next week. The unmanned aircraft were built by high