Electronic Sub-Systems
Russia has spent hundreds of millions of dollars buying Israeli unmanned aircraft systems (and to acquire technology and components for joint UAS production. But at present these UAS are no more than expensive flying TV-cameras, the targeting information they produce is mostly useless, since there are no precise GLONASS
Testing
Northrop Grumman Corporation, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and NASA Dryden Flight Research Center have just released pictures of a key risk reduction flight test in which Northrop Grumman's Proteus test aircraft and a NASA Global Hawk flew as close as 40 feet apart at an altitude
Test Ranges
A well-kept secret is the new CESVA UAS flight test centre which opened last year in Spain. Juan Secades, Director of the site, told UAS Vision: “We’ve had a lot of local clients - both military and commercial - who have been very satisfied with the experience, and now its
Commercial
Carinthian Tech Research (Austria), Schiebel GmbH (Austria), and Quest Innovations B.V. (The Netherlands) have developed an aerial multispectral imaging system to monitor the soil composition of agricultural land. The system is both faster and provides full sampling of the area to be examined, than the current practice of taking
Business
A survey by job seekers web-site Indeed revealed that in the USA, the average annual salary of a UAS Operator, or Remotely Piloted Aircraft Pilot, was $103,000 – somewhat greater than the average of $80,000 it found for Aircraft Pilots. For full results click here. Meanwhile, we came
Military
Chinese hackers allegedly broke into a computer network run by South Korea's defence ministry last year and stole secret documents on a plan to buy spy drones from the United States, an opposition lawmaker in Seoul said on Monday. The alleged hacking occurred in June last year, and
Commercial
Roger Powers and his team at Flint Hills Solutions shows us round their workshop where they are building affordable unmanned aircraft. The small Kansas company hit the news recently with a deal with the City of Eldorado. The Flint Hills unmanned aircraft can fit on top of a desk; it&
Military
AZAD System Co., which was opened last week by the President of Azerbaijan, in association with the Ministry of Defence’s Industrial division, has created a new industry in the country – production of unmanned aircraft. Assembly of two types of unmanned aircraft under a joint-venture with Aeronautics Defense Sysytems–
Events
The Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA is organising its second annual Industry Symposium to present its aerospace engineering design projects. The Aerospace Engineering Design Symposium will be held on Friday, April 15, 2011 in the Discovery Learning Center at the University. In
Electronic Sub-Systems
Insitu Pacific and SELEX Galileo have announced that they are collaborating on rapidly integrating SELEX Galileo's high-resolution synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) PicoSAR into the Integrator UAS. Equipped with PicoSAR's active electronically scanned array (AESA) and ground moving target indicator (GMTI) technology, Integrator will deliver the
Military
The U.S. Air Force accepted MQ-1 Predator tail number 268, the last manufactured for the service, in a ceremony March 3 at General Atomics’ Gray Butte Aeronautical Systems' Flight Ops Facility. Col. James Beissner, Air Combat Command’s Chief Irregular Warfare Division, accepted the aircraft on behalf
Military
Part of a series demonstrating what skills can be acquired during an Army career, the first episode compares the skills of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Systems Operator and those of a civilian Skycam Operator during an NCAA football game. This clip was posted on YouTube and the full series can