Commercial
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Commercial
The Barbados government has announced a 12-month ban on the importation of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS), popularly known as unmanned aerial vehicles or drones. It takes effect from April 1. A government statement quoted an unnamed official in the Customs and Excise Department as saying that the ban
Military
The U.S. Army’s Joint Precision Airdrop System (JPADS) has developed a new capability with a navigation alternative to GPS. In recent tests, JPADS were dropped from planes, and immediately determined their location using optical sensors to compare local terrain with commercial satellite imagery. The new system demonstrated navigation
Lighter Than Air
2016 will be a momentous year for the future of aviation with the innovative Airlander 10 taking to the British skies for the first time - the construction team continues to make ground-breaking progress on a daily basis – most recently attaching the Mission Module to the iconic hull. * Mission Module
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NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center conducts research to advance science, technology and aeronautics through flight. This video highlights some of the flight research and other activities that occurred at NASA Armstrong in 2015 in an effort to support of the agency's strategic goals in Earth science,
Technology
Dreams of antimatter space propulsion are closer to reality than most rocket scientists could ever imagine, says former Fermilab physicist Gerald Jackson. In fact, if money were no object, he says an antimatter-driven spacecraft prototype could be tested within a decade. To that end, next month, Jackson and his
Commercial
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Austin Haughwout, the Central Connecticut State University engineering student who was expelled last October for building a gun-firing drone, has filed a lawsuit against the university. The lawsuit, filed in New Britain Superior Court, alleges that Haughwout, of 7 Egypt Lane in Clinton, was expelled unlawfully by university officials.
Aerial Photography
Amongst the music and films that make up the annual South by Southwest Festival, New York-based startup Aerobo will launch its new Micro Unmanned Aerial System that it says it specifically designed for the broadcast TV industry. The drone will be unveiled toady, Monday, March 14, at the Google
Business
Piaggio Aero has secured the first export order for its P.1HH Hammerhead unmanned air vehicle, following the United Arab Emirates’ decision to acquire eight of the type. The P180 Avanti II twin-pusher-derived UAV will be provided to the nation under a €316 million ($347 million) deal signed
Military
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, a company based in Sacramento, Calif., is proposing its Unmanned Tactical Aerial Platform 22 (UTAP-22) to fill a need unmet by the slow unmanned aerial vehicles used for surveillance. The UTAP-22 is a high-performance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with fighter-like capabilities.
Military
The asphalt runway stretches for a mile on Yucca Flat, deep in the Nevada National Security Site about 80 miles northwest of Las Vegas. Built in 2005, the runway covers a dirt landing strip from the 1950s, when the wide, flat valley was used for atomic bomb test shots. A