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What appeared to be human forms recently seen flying over New York City made passes along the Brooklyn Bridge, flew past the Statue of Liberty, and some even performed loops -- they were also part of a viral marketing campaign. To promote a movie, three remote-controlled aircraft designed to look
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MI6 Films is one of the operators targeted by the FAA in its crackdown on the use of remote-control aircraft to shoot aerial video and photos for the real estate trade. The company used a substantial aircraft to carry full-sized motion picture camera gear and rented the aircraft and camera
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A Clarkson University research team, led by Mechanical & Aeronautical Engineering Professors Pier Marzocca, Suresh Dhaniyala and Lin Tian, is readying its unmanned aircraft, the Clarkson RAVEN (Research Aerial Vehicle for Experimental Needs), to acquire wind turbulence data. The three Clarkson faculty, along with colleagues from six institutions and companies
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16 North Dakota counties will soon use two small unmanned aircraft to monitor crime scenes and track suspects. Coordinating the project — part research, part law enforcement — is Al Frazier, a Grand Forks deputy sheriff and an assistant professor at the University of North Dakota. Sheriff's deputies and police
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UNOSAT took delivery today of its second UAS in a little over one month, this time a so-called quadrocopter. This latest model will be used to diversify UNOSAT’s mini-UAV fleet and to complement the Programme’s local mapping capacity. The quadrocopter is particularly suitable for close-up assessments and inspections
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The US Customs and Border Protection agency just posted this video showing its new Unmanned Aircraft Systems specifically designed to patrol over open water. It details the setting up of its Predator B aircraft, the logistical and contractual hurdles that had to be jumped and their cooperation and integration with
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The US Customs and Border Protection Agency is looking for a contractor that can help it evaluate the feasibility of using Unmanned Aircraft Systems to monitor the movement of possible human intruders into the United States along the U.S.-Mexican border. CBP’s office of air and marine currently
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Energy companies have been testing small, unmanned aircraft as potential pipeline and drilling rig monitors. After the government, no one is as interested in unmanned systems as the energy industry. (The Interior Department has more than 40 unmanned aerial systems that it uses to monitor wildlife and fires.) Many of
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The German Parliament is about to approve a new law to include unmanned aircraft in air traffic laws. The police already have unmanned aircraft, which they use to monitor demonstrations, for example. They were used for the first time about a year ago during protests against a nuclear waste transport
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The NYPD could be exploring plans to use unmanned aircraft as a law enforcement tool in New York City to keep an eye on city parks and streets. In a recent email obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, an NYPD Detective in the Counterterrorism Unit asks the Federal Aviation
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The Miami-Dade Police Department finally stands ready to launch their two Honeywell T-Hawk micro air vehicles, or MAVs, the next time a shooting standoff or hostage situation could use a bird's eye boost, more than two years after acquiring the equipment. "It has no weapons," said
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Thales and Aerovisión have given a real flight demonstration of the Fulmar for the European Agency Frontex, the organism in charge of coordinating the border control operations of the European Union member states.Fulmar is a wholly Spanish project that is a global solution that uses the Maritime Surveillance Systems