Events
The Federal Aviation Administration is competitively establishing a new Center of Excellence for General Aviation Research in 2012. The FAA will begin the competitive process by hosting a Public Meeting on November 17-18, 2011 in the Atlantic City, NJ area. The FAA issued a Preliminary Notice last week, announcing
Testing
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi announced that the first airborne science missions using unmanned aircraft over the Gulf of Mexico were successfully completed during the week of October 10-17. Scientists with the Unmanned Aerial Systems Initiative at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi and representatives from
Electronic Sub-Systems
Colmek has announced a contract award from Turkish contractor Vestel Savunma Sanyani A.S.
Testing
We first came across the ‘Unmanned Flying Ball from Japan” earlier this year in June. Now the Japanese Ministry of Defence Research Department has made an official launch at the Digital Content Expo in Tokyo last week. Fumiyuki Sato, Technical Official at TRDI, Ministry of Defence presented the machine to
Accidents
Colonel Aden Dheere, a Somali military official, told Iran’s Press TV that the remote-controlled aircraft went down on the outskirts of Dhoobley town on Wednesday morning.Dhoobley is situated 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the Kenyan border and about 500 kilometers (312 miles) southwest of the Somali capital
Testing
IAI's Panther tiltrotor unmanned aircraft system is currently performing automatic take-off and landing tests, and in early 2012 will demonstrate its capabilities to potential customers. An Israel Aerospace Industries source said the company's development team has managed to solve problems with the transition between hovering
Business
Aurora Flight Sciences has been assigned a patent for a "system and method for the retrieval of a smaller unmanned aerial vehicle by a larger unmanned aerial vehicle." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system and method
Military
Orbiter AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems announced yesterday that it has delivered an Aerosonde Mark 4.7 Small Unmanned Aircraft System and an Orbiter Miniature Unmanned Aircraft System to the US Army Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC). The systems will support the five-year cooperative research and development
Testing
Orbiter The two Israeli companies still contesting the Finnish armed forces' competition to select an unmanned aircraft system face two more rounds of evaluation. One will be held in Finland and the other in Israel within the coming weeks. Finnish evaluators will use the phase in Israel to learn
Payloads
Northrop Grumman Corporation has successfully demonstrated advanced sensor and network technologies for the protection of fixed locations, adapting the STARLite Small Tactical Radar developed for UAS. Over five days of integration and testing, Northrop Grumman and its teammates fused data from more than 10 systems to form a common operational
Commercial
Insitu Pacific is currently undertaking a marketing offensive to develop use of the ScanEagle for commercial purpose in the Asia Pacific region. At a recent media briefing in Brisbane, Insitu Pacific Managing Director Andrew Duggan explaned: "The biggest challenge we face in all the countries (in Asia Pacific) is
Payloads
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. announced that its Lynx Block 20 Multi-mode Radar will soon be deployed on three Sky Warrior Alpha UAS operating in Afghanistan following the award of $5.8 million contract on September 28. Featuring photographic-quality resolution, the radars are expected to enhance the situational