Business
[gallery orderby="rand"] A new company, Fat Head Solutions, LLC with bases in Wichita Kansas and two other major operating locations, will provide low cost, high value, and complete subsystem solutions for small unmanned aircraft systems. Capitalizing on an emerging $17B/year market, Fat Head Solutions intends to
UAV Factory has developed a miniature heated Pitot-Static probe, intended to expand the operational envelope of its Penguin B UAS. The probe is optimized for small unmanned aircraft and is claimed to be the lightest and most power efficient commercially available probe. The combined dynamic and static port heating
MIST, an advanced EO payload designed for mapping and wide area aerial surveillance was displayed for the first time at the AUVSI Israel event in Tel Aviv. A military version of the camera was designed for unmanned aircraft systems and has entered operational service in 2006, just in time for
Events
An unmanned aircraft, built by Team Vyoma, a group of engineering students and professionals from RV College of Engineering in Bangalore, will feature in the SAE Aero Design Challenge 2012, an international aero design competition conducted by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) in collaboration with NASA and Lockheed Martin.
Military
The US Navy has set a weight-based threshold for who will operate unmanned aircraft, with UAS weighing more than 55 pounds (25 Kilos) being operated as adjuncts to manned systems, while operators of lighter aircraft will come from other corners of the service. Additionally, it’s expected that officers
Testing
Chris Norton spent 22 years as a Royal Air Force fighter pilot before he co-founded 2Excel Aviation in 2005. The UK company operates a fleet of stunt planes known as the Blades and is licensed as an airline, so it can take fare-paying passengers on ride-alongs as
Posted April 1. "Flying Robots Deliver Tacos To Your Location - Our unmanned delivery agents are fast and work tirelessly." Here’s how it works: You order through an app on your smartphone, and after the taco has been prepared at TacoCopter’s headquarters, instead of being delivered by
Commercial
Researchers with the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have used unmanned aircraft in three trials to count the number of sandhill cranes that visit the Monte Vista National Wildlife Refuge and found them to be a safe alternative for both birds and scientists.
Propulsion
Last year, Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories and Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation favourably assessed a certain technology that could extend the mission duration and capabilities of unmanned aircraft. But they concluded regretfully that “current political conditions will not allow use of the results.” The assessment was carried out to explore
Business
The Board of Directors of Dassault, chaired by Mr. Charles EDELSTENNE, last week closed the financial statements for the year 2011. These consolidated financial statements were certified by the Statutory Auditors who expressed an unqualified opinion. Order intake 36 FALCON compared to - 9 in 2010 MIRAGE 2000 upgrade contract in
Testing
A team at Webster Field Annex is working briskly to support an urgent Navy request to weaponize the MQ-8B Fire Scout, marking the first time the Navy will arm an unmanned aircraft. The Fire Scout team and NAVAIR’s structures rotary-wing division personnel conducted the first of a
In December, MIT Media Lab researchers caused a stir by releasing a slow-motion video of a burst of light traveling the length of a plastic bottle. But the experimental setup that enabled that video was designed for a much different application: a camera that can see around corners. In