Propulsion
Moller International, Inc. has awarded Space Science Corporation (SSC) a distributorship with exclusive rights in New Mexico following the completion of a market survey at the International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight (ISPCS). "Space Sciences Corporation is a young aggressive firm and their approach to business holds many
Commercial
Government officials in the Indian State of Orissa are looking at high-tech radio monitoring devices like Unmanned Aircraft for catering to any short notice multi-linear operation in the fields of disaster management, heath services and homeland security. A meeting to this effect has been held recently under Chairmanship of Chief
VTOL
Next time you barricade yourself inside a parking garage with an AK-47, keep an eye out for the flying garbage can. It weighs about 18 pounds, can hover in midair, and is loaded with video cameras to send precise footage of your every move back to cops swarming on the
Commercial
The Managing Director of the company that built the aircraft, Ehsan Rahmanian, said: “The aircraft enjoys a high potentiality and can carry out various military and non-military missions including patrolling, reconnaissance and monitoring woods and pastures.” “It is named “Shir Dal”. It is taken from a mythological creature in Persepolis
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The video above showing a civilian operated unmanned helicopter filming riots in Warsaw, Poland recently is a great example of the democratisation of what was until very recently, military-grade technology. This is a simply an ISR unmanned aircraft flying above the streets of a major city taking camera footage that
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The Police Service of Northern Ireland is considering the use of mini UAS to combat crime and the dissident republican threat. The aircraft under consideration is the Scout from Aeryon Labs. It is fitted with a camera that automatically tracks a subject, can relay live pictures back to the operator,
Commercial
At the most recent City Council meeting, officials gave Arlington Police Department permission to use of about $202,000 in Department of Homeland Security grant money to buy two small unmanned aircraft. The aircraft, known as Leptron Avengers, are battery-operated helicopters designed to take high-resolution video and photos and that
Commercial
Scientists from the University of Costa Rica have developed a low-cost unmanned aircraft to monitor steam emissions and other atmospheric markers at Costa Rica's Aranel Volcano. The last serious eruption was in 1998, although the steady emission of steam is a constant reminder of its potential to erupt
Commercial
BCB International's SQ-4 weighs only 2.9 ozs. (82 grams), flies up to 400 feet in the air, fits in the palm of a hand, contains two video cameras, can hover in place and perch on ledges, and automatically returns “home” when its battery runs low. The SQ-4,
Commercial
Architects have been using a remote-controlled aircraft to survey the historic Stirling Bridge in Scotland. The 500-year-old bridge has been suffering "severe problems" with water ingress, which is eroding the masonry. A team from Historic Scotland, which looks after the four-arched structure, used the unmanned aircraft to assess
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A remote colony of birds kept flying away before anyone could count them, so a team of ecologists built a do-it-yourself unmanned aircraft to spy on them from above.The team made their UAS out of a 4.6-foot-wide radio-controlled airplane, two cameras and a GPS tracking unit, all for
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Head of the Khomeini-Shahr branch of the Islamic Azad University, Khalifeh Soltani, announced on Monday that a group of students have built an unmanned aircraft which specializes in rescue and relief operations. It has been built in a period of seven months and has cost about USD 15,000. “The