Military
Members of Lockheed Martin Systems & Sensors team discussed the company’s 100-year history at a demonstration last week of the Desert Hawk at the company’s campus in Owego. The 1.7-million-square-foot Owego facility, which employs 2,700 people, currently works on several projects, including
Commercial
Neil Crosby's Marvyille-based firm, PhotoPlay Aerials, has begun using an unmanned aircraft for projects involving still photography and video shoots.The UAS has six spinning rotors mounted above two curved legs. The camera is mounted underneath, and the device has a flight range of 1,500 feet.
Business
Rheinmetall Airborne Systems, the joint venture of EADS and Rheinmetall in the field of unmanned aircraft systems, has developed a new “Tactical UAS” product family. The family is based on three aerial platforms with different characteristics and a joint payload concept for a multi-role capability. Based on experience gained
Events
This year's UAS Royal Aeronautical Socity's Annual Conference continues the tradition of getting the people that shape industry both in the UK and abroad together to share their thoughts, their perspectives and their visions for one of the world’s fastest growing industries – Unmanned Aircraft Systems.
Commercial
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Manitoba held an event on August 23 to display their new UAS - the police now has two of the units, which can be used for aerial photography and video of crime and crash scenes. “It is another investigative tool for documenting evidence and reduces
VTOL
The K-MAX unmanned cargo helicopter successfully demonstrated its ability to make a delivery and a landing within three meters of a beacon during tests at Ft. Pickett, Va., for the Army's Aviation Applied Technology Directorate in April, 2012. Developed by Lockheed Martin and Kaman Aerospace, K-MAX
Commercial
AERIE has signed a qualification agreement with Austrian Aircraft Manufacturer HB Flugtechnik, in order to having the capability to even produce parts and models in accordance to EASA Certified Design Organisation, Production Organisation and Maintenance Organisation Approvals. This agreement formalizes a several-year long collaboration and makes AERIE unique on
Data Links & Communications
Airborne Innovations has announced the latest addition to its product portfolio, the MicroraptorHD. MicroraptorHD is a subminiature multiple camera 1080p high definition video link and bidirectional command and control datalink for micro unmanned vehicles. With configurations as light as 52 grams, MicroraptorHD is an enabling technology for high definition video
Within the context of its Global Access Initiative, UVS International is organizing a survey on currently on-going civil RPAS operations. The intent of this survey has the following objectives: * Reach out to the current civil RPAS operators’ community (operators: persons, organizations or enterprises engaged in or offering to engage
Commercial
State-of-the-art UAS operated by the Sky Watch charity which joined forces with the Police Service of Northern Ireland, are to be deployed for the first time in a missing person search in Northern Ireland later this week. At least one of the UAS — and possibly an auto-
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. announced that it successfully demonstrated additional features of the Maritime Wide Area Search (MWAS) mode of its proven Lynx Multi-mode Radar during the recent U.S. Navy Experiment Trident Warrior 2012 (TW12) held off the coast of Southern California in July. Integrated aboard a
Electronic Sub-Systems
[youtube VXUOKeDOtOw nolink] Gill Sensors has produced a video animation detailing how the Blade360 rotary position sensor works. The video covers the fundamentals of induction technology and shows how the sensor uses this principle to detect absolute position. A metallic target, referred to as the activator, passes over a series