Regulations
The UK’s Department for Transport has claimed the country is pioneering ahead of European and international airspace regulators to rapidly look at integrating unmanned air vehicles into national airspace. EASA and ICAO are both looking at higher level integration of UAVs, with EASA in particular looking at introducing a
Testing
The UK’s BAE Systems Taranis unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) demonstrator will carry out a third phase of flight tests towards the end of the year, the Ministry of Defence has revealed. The test programme had gone quiet after two phases of testing in Woomera in Australia, but it
Testing
Singapore Post has announced the success of a mail and packet drone delivery trial which took place between Lorong Halus and Pulau Ubin in Singapore. The drone was built using the Pixhawk Steadidrone platform developed by Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) Labs. The test flight which took five minutes
Army engineers, who are seeking to adapt ongoing research to counter aerial systems that could threaten Soldiers, successfully shot down two aircraft as part of their final technology demonstration.Although the research project began with the objective to counter rockets, artillery and mortars, the project scope was expanded to include
Radar
The world's first fully integrated detect-track-disrupt Anti-UAV Defence System (AUDS) - launched by a trio of British companies in May this year – now features a quad band radio frequency (RF) inhibitor/jammer, an optical disruptor and rapid deployment features in the final production version of the
Regulations
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has entered into a Pathfinder agreement with CACI International Inc. to evaluate how the company’s technology can help detect Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) in the vicinity of airports. In testimony before the House Aviation Subcommittee, FAA Deputy Administrator Mike Whitaker said that flying an
Testing
DARPA’s Towed Airborne Lift of Naval Systems (TALONS) research effort recently demonstrated a prototype of a low-cost, fully automated parafoil system designed to extend maritime vessels’ long-distance communications and improve their domain awareness. Towed behind boats or ships, TALONS could carry intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and communications payloads
Cyberhawk Innovations, an aerial inspection and surveying company using UAVs, has marked its busiest ever year in the renewables sector with the launch of a commercial scale inspection solution for wind turbine blades. This year, Cyberhawk’s work in the renewables sector has increased tenfold as wind farm operators embrace
Commercial
Crop dusters and drone operators have hesitated to share the same sky, but last week in the rural southeastern Colorado community of La Junta they did just that. There, participants in the annual Operation S.A.F.E. Fly-In of the Colorado Agricultural Aviation Association (CAAA) collaborated with UAS
Video
Listen to the awesome whistling sound and the roar of the Rolls Royce Merlin engine. Enjot this veteran fighter aircraft ('Marinell' of the Hardwick Warbirds collection) swooping by at the 2014 Little Gransden Air and Car Show, held at Little Gransden, England. Source: YouTube
Russia is creating a new payload module for its drones to help effectiveness of aerial surveillance and monitoring. “The technology we created can process hyperspectral data streams, leading to the creation of an “all-seeing eye” that allows our drones to look beyond the usual boundaries of the human eye’
Regulations
The U.S. aviation group charged with developing standards to enable unmanned aircraft to fly in unrestricted airspace has completed the first documents for key systems, but cautions they are limited in scope and application. RTCA Special Committee (SC) 228 has released interim minimum operational performance standards (MOPS) for the