Military
The CIA’s Project Aquiline was a drone with a ten-foot wingspan which would carry out spy missions deep into the Soviet Union. The CIA has declassified a new stash of documents about the project from the early 1970s, revealing among other things, plans to fit nuclear propulsion and
Military
The CIA’s Project Aquiline was a drone with a ten-foot wingspan which would carry out spy missions deep into the Soviet Union. The CIA has declassified a new stash of documents about the project from the early 1970s, revealing among other things, plans to fit nuclear propulsion and
Business
The US Department of the Navy plans to award Northrop Grumman’s aerospace systems business a delivery order to provide analysis support for demonstration activities involving the MQ-4C Triton unmanned aerial system. Northrop will support testing of net-enabled weapons and other warfighting technologies designed to maintain UAS-driven
Business
The US Department of the Navy plans to award Northrop Grumman’s aerospace systems business a delivery order to provide analysis support for demonstration activities involving the MQ-4C Triton unmanned aerial system. Northrop will support testing of net-enabled weapons and other warfighting technologies designed to maintain UAS-driven
Accidents
Researchers at the Delft University of Technology, TU Delft, have produced a 98-Page research thesis on 'Predicting helicopter damage caused by a collision with an Unmanned Aerial System using explicit Finite Element Analysis'. Abstract: Due to an exponential growth in the number of shipments of Unmanned Aerial
Accidents
Researchers at the Delft University of Technology, TU Delft, have produced a 98-Page research thesis on 'Predicting helicopter damage caused by a collision with an Unmanned Aerial System using explicit Finite Element Analysis'. Abstract: Due to an exponential growth in the number of shipments of Unmanned Aerial
Video
This was the performance that won the Swedish Air Force pilot and plane the King Hussein Memorial Sword for best overall flying demonstration at the RIAT 2019 air show. A quick turn at high speed requires enormous 'lift' forces from the wings (ie perpendicular to the wings), and
Video
This was the performance that won the Swedish Air Force pilot and plane the King Hussein Memorial Sword for best overall flying demonstration at the RIAT 2019 air show. A quick turn at high speed requires enormous 'lift' forces from the wings (ie perpendicular to the wings), and
Patents
PrecisionHawk, Inc., has announced that it has been awarded two patents for technologies it has developed for unmanned aircraft system traffic management (UTM). The patents, titled ‘Automated Unmanned Air Traffic Control System,’ are designed to enable collision avoidance between drones and manned aircraft. This is achieved by transmitting real-time
Patents
PrecisionHawk, Inc., has announced that it has been awarded two patents for technologies it has developed for unmanned aircraft system traffic management (UTM). The patents, titled ‘Automated Unmanned Air Traffic Control System,’ are designed to enable collision avoidance between drones and manned aircraft. This is achieved by transmitting real-time
Research
Researchers Chuhao Liu and Shaojie Shen from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology revealed an intriguing new way to control drones that uses holographic augmented reality hardware to create live 3D terrain maps, enabling drone pilots to simply point at targets visualized above any flat surface. The holographic
Control Stations
Researchers Chuhao Liu and Shaojie Shen from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology revealed an intriguing new way to control drones that uses holographic augmented reality hardware to create live 3D terrain maps, enabling drone pilots to simply point at targets visualized above any flat surface. The holographic