The AOPA Foundation's Air Safety Institute (ASI) has released a new interactive online course entitled "Unmanned Aircraft and the National Airspace System."The course covers topics including: what unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) are and how they operate; their impact on general aviation; how manned and unmanned
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With much of Australia looking like reverting to a dry bushfire-prone weather pattern avionics engineers at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) are pulling out all stops to develop the technology to enable remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) to become airborne. Professor Duncan Campbell who heads the Australian Research Centre for
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This video just posted on YouTube shows RQ-4 Global Hawk maintenance routines.The video was shot by Airman 1st Class Andrew Buchanan/9th Reconnaissance Wing Public Affairs. Source: YouTube
Electronic Sub-Systems
MicroStrain has introduced ENV-Link -Mini, which simplifies and streamlines remote environmental monitoring, alerting & reporting. This long-range, low-power environmental sensing solution is ideal for remote applications that demand scalable monitoring, simple initialization and easy access to data. With the new ENV-Link -Mini, users can quickly and
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Iran's security forces are mounting missiles on it's independently produced long-range UAS, a top Iranian official said on Sunday, adding that Iran managed to obtain technical information from the RQ-170that was captured by the Islamic Republic late last year. In 2010, Iran unveiled a
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Global Hawk touching down at RAAF Edinburgh in February 2006 The United States flew highly classified Global Hawk surveillance missions from the Royal Australian Air Force base at Edinburgh in South Australia from late 2001 until at least 2006.The operations were detected by a group of Adelaide aviation historians
High-tech robots being developed by a group of scientists near Medicine Hat, Alberta, could soon be used to detect leaks in pipelines or avalanches in the mountains. The UAS are being developed at Canadian Forces Base Suffield to use overseas for gathering information or carrying cargo. Jared Giesbrecht, who
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Science Applications International Corporation announced it was awarded a prime contract by the United States Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) to provide Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) Ground Control Station (GCS) and Combined Operations Center (Combined Ops Ctr) support. The single-award cost-plus fixed-fee (CPFF) contract has a
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In late August, HMCS Charlottetown wraps up a seven-month deployment and bids farewell to the ScanEagle unmanned aircraft detachment that shared the flight deck with Osprey, the Halifax-class frigate’s CH-124 Sea King helicopter. Charlottetown is the first Canadian warship to carry a UAS detachment throughout an
Electronic Sub-Systems
Nano-miniature connectors from TE Connectivity combine appealing size and weight with desired performance attributes such as high reliability, low contact resistance and wide operation temperature range, making them among the smallest and toughest connectors available to designers.The connectors offer dramatic space and weight savings in applications where size,
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Rheinmetall Airborne Systems GmbH has announced details of the completely new, bi-hybrid tactical Unmanned Aircraft System that we revealed last week. The airborne system, currently operating under the project name TU-150 *, unifies fixed-wing with VTOL characteristics and is being developed in close cooperation with the Swiss UAV
Propulsion
An aircraft that resembles a four-point ninja star could go into supersonic mode by simply turning 90 degrees in midair. The unusual "flying wing" concept has won $100,000 in NASA funding to trying becoming a reality for future passenger jet travel. The supersonic, bidirectional flying wing