Research
A New Mexico State University psychology professor is studying unmanned aircraft and the pilots who operate them in order to create guidelines for the Federal Aviation Administration and other agencies.These guidelines will establish methods so that unmanned aircraft systems can be used safely in personal, commercial and academic situations.
Military
South Korea is moving rapidly into the demonstrator phase for a stealth combat unmanned aircraft that it does not expect to field until late in the next decade. With the KAI, the defence ministry’s designers have chosen a configuration much like those of proposed Western aircraft. Western countries such
Testing
The Center for Remote Integration in Montana hosted a flight demonstration of the Sandstorm UAS on a remote airstrip south of Columbia Falls on Tuesday. This was the second flight demonstration of the aircraft, after that in Oklahoma in August. About 45 people were on hand to witness the flight,
Events
The Navy-Industry International Dialogue (NIID) provides a Navy-Industry-Attaché-Foreign Procurement Group forum to address issues involving security cooperation and sea service concepts and programmes that help drive future capabilities for international maritime partnerships. This conference will focus on Unmanned Aerial Systems management and capabilities. The Navy is
Commercial
Cook County Sheriff Considering Drones: MyFoxCHICAGO.com Chicago - Cook County Sheriff's Office is considering using unmanned aircraft that they consider to be far less expensive and more effective than the helicopters that have been the county's eyes-in-the-sky. It's a case of
Business
The growing market for unmanned aircraft has created 150 job openings at Northrop Grumman's San Diego area plants, where the company develops the Global Hawk, Fire Scout and the X-47B."These are new jobs, not replacement positions," said Warren Comer, a Northrop spokesman. "And
Military
According to statistics provided by the US Army, Navy and Air Force, remotely piloted aircraft have logged around 2.7 million flight hours during the current era of drone warfare. More than 87 percent of the time, these aircraft have been involved in combat. For the last decade, the United
Data Links & Communications
The US Navy completed a demonstration for its unmanned aircraft Common Control System (CCS) Oct. 26 at Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division in China Lake, California. Led by the Program Executive Office for Unmanned Aviation and Strike Weapons (PEO(U&W)), CCS is a software-only solution with
Military
The Financial Times Deutschland reported on Wednesday that EADS is set to offer to waive any rights to damages from cuts to Eurofighter jet orders if some countries buy Talarion UAS and sign maintenance deals. The newspaper cited two people familiar with the matter as saying that Stefan Zoller, head
Propulsion
At the end of October 2011, Thomas Senkel of e-volo made the first manned flight with an e-powered multicopter at an airstrip in the southwest of Germany. The flight lasted one minute and 30 seconds, after which the constructor and test pilot stated: "The flight characteristics are
Testing
Turkish Aerospace Industries' (TAI) has announced that its Anka prototype completed its fifth flight on 22 October, "marking the beginning of the envelope expansion process". This will demonstrate the aircraft's performance at various altitudes, speeds and weights. First flown on 30 December 2010, the Anka
Training
Kurt Barnhart, executive director of the Applied Aviation Research Center and head of the aviation department, and Eric Shappee, associate professor of aviation, at Kansas State University Salina, have helped write and edit one of the first collegiate-level textbooks on unmanned aircraft systems, "Introduction to Unmanned Aircraft Systems.