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Peter La Franchi is an internationally respected unmanned systems sector analyst and former unmanned aviation editor of Flight International magazine. Peter’s interest in privacy law stems from working as a specialist researcher in the former Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission during 1988-1989, a time when Australia
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Jeffery E. Bauer is NASA’s liaison for Unmanned Aircraft System airspace integration activities. He serves on the Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Executive Committee Senior Steering Group. Mr. Bauer has over 20 years experience in flight research with UAS during which he acquired a thorough understanding of the issues confronting
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Lieutenant-Colonel Craig Palmer has been Commanding Officer of the 32nd Regiment Royal Artillery since May 2011 - the unit that operates a variety of UAS in support of UK ground forces in Afghanistan. In his presentation he revealed that Camp Bastion in Helmand is the UK’s third busiest airport
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Colonel Gilles Randreau was the officer in charge of UAS programmes in the Army staff, from 2008 to 2011. In 2011, he became the commanding officer of the 61st Artillery Regiment. Deployed in Afghanistan since 2008, the French Sperwer tactical UAS have been performing a wide panel of missions, from
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Bjoern Symank is a former German Army Aviation Captain who entered service in 1997 and went through several operational deployments as a transport helicopter pilot. During that time he also realised several software projects for the Armed Forces. In 2008, he learned the peculiarities of the German procurement system as
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Flying Robots debuted the FR102+ at the RPAS 2012 Conference currently being held in Paris. Since 2004, Flying Robots SAS France has developed a unique know-how on soft wing para-motors and UAS. The last development is the FR102, which integrates several aerial surveillance and satellite communication systems. Thanks
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Squadron Leader VS Srinivasan retired from the Flying(Pilot) branch of the Indian Air Force on 31st March 2010, after a challenging tenure of 11 years and 3 months.Born on 27th March 1976, Srinivasan is an alumnus of the prestigious National Defence Academy. His passion for flying saw him
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Peter La Franchi is the editor in chief and head of research at LFRG Pty Ltd, a newly established analysis firm focused on the defence, aerospace and remote sensing sectors. He has specific responsibility for a new international unman- ned systems business journal being launched in mid-2012. This paper
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Dag Henning Paulsen is one of the founders of Prox Dynamics and is currently in charge of the company’s customer projects. Dag Henning was born in 1961 and grew up close to Oslo in Norway, is married and the father of four children. His background is from the Norwegian
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The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has announced a meeting of the Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Subcommittee of the Aeronautics Committee of the NASA Advisory Council. The meeting will be held for the purpose of soliciting, from the aeronautics community and other persons, research and technical information relevant
Lighter Than Air
The U.S. military is testing high-tech “battle kites” as a method of lifting communications and surveillance equipment above isolated bases in Afghanistan. The battle kites aren’t designed to get involved in dog fights. They are built to fly over forward operating bases that are too small to
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Austria's Minister of Defence, Norbert Darabos, says that his country plans to buy surveillance UAS for use at home and abroad.The unmanned aircraft could be used to help protect troops on foreign soil through surveillance as well as in case of natural catastrophes such as avalanches. They