Military
The sun has set on the 163rd Reconnaissance Wing's MQ-1 Predator mission. The final mission of the California Air National Guard unit's Predator aircraft ended at 1528 Zulu time on April 1 after eight years, 230 days, nine hours and 30 minutes of consecutive flights
Military
The X-47B successfully conducted the first ever Autonomous Aerial Refuelling (AAR) of an unmanned aircraft April 22, completing the final test objective under the Navy's Unmanned Combat Air System demonstration programme. While flying off the coast of Maryland and Virginia in the Atlantic Test Ranges, the X-
Military
This unmanned tiltrotor drone is able to take off and land vertically like a helicopter, while flying like an airplane. Able to stay in the air for up to six hours, the TR-60 can reach speeds of up to 500 kilometers an hour, making it the fastest of its
Commercial
UPS has announced its participation in a multi-state study on the use of drones for humanitarian disaster relief operations. The study was coordinated by Measure, a 32 Advisors Company specializing in drone applications, on behalf of the American Red Cross and participating companies, including UPS. The study was initiated
Testing
The US Marine Future Warfighting Laboratory recently tested a new robot team that works together to look for objects, provide situational awareness, and hunt for “bad actors” on the battlefield. The test married a ground robot, like an iRobot PackBot, with a small six-rotor aerial drone that docked with
The ‘Green Brain Project’ combines computational neuroscience modelling, learning and decision theory, modern parallel computing methods, and robotics with data from state-of-the-art neurobiological experiments on cognition in the honeybee Apis mellifera.These various methodologies are used to build and deploy a modular model of the honeybee brain
Video
The Spartan 7W Executive was an aircraft produced by the Spartan Aircraft Company during the late 1930s and early 1940s. The 7W featured an all-metal fuselage as well as a retractable undercarriage. The 7W Executive was popular with affluent buyers worldwide. Designed for comfort, the interior of the 7W
Business
Russia is set to supply its Ptero-G0 unmanned aircraft systems not only to the Russian law enforcement agencies, but to its foreign partners, AFM-Servers, the developer and producer of the systems.Russia is planning to export its Ptero-G0 unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), according to the Director General
Accidents
Japanese authorities were investigating Wednesday after a small drone laced with traces of radiation was found on the roof of the prime minister's office. No injuries or damage were reported from the incident, and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was in Indonesia to attend an Asian-African conference. Police
Commercial
Polish railway company PKP Cargo has said the introduction of drones across its network has led to a dramatic decline in the theft of coal. The special units were deployed to combat criminals, who targeted the freight wagons some 900 times in the first 10 months of 2014, costing the
Testing
The CM100 and CM160 from UAV Vision have been successfully integrated on to a Yamaha RMAX during recent flights. With participation by Mike Johnson from Yamaha Motor Australia, an RMAX was taken to UAV Vision’s Research and Development Facility based in Port Macquarie, NSW. The RMAX is proven as
Regulations
As the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro approach, Brazilian authorities are drafting new regulations over the domestic use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) Civil Aviation Secretary Rafael Jose Botelho said on Thursday, April 16.Brazilian authorities seek to present new drone-regulating legislation before the 2016 Rio de Janeiro