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Photo: NASA NASA researchers have demonstrated the use of an unmanned aircraft to collect very low altitude airborne measurements of greenhouse gases at several sites in California and Nevada. As Earth scientists strive to better understand sources and sinks of atmospheric greenhouse gases, a new aircraft capability developed at NASA
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The Chair of Architecture and Digital Fabrication at the FRAC Cultural Centre in Orléans, France has commissioned a 3 month exhibition entitled "Flight Assembled Architecture". It runs from 01.12.2011-26.02.2012 and claims to be the first architectural installation to be built dynamically by flying
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High-end real estate agent Stephen Shapiro, is now using video taken from a small hexrotor unmanned helicopter to sell expensive homes in Southern California. In this tough economic market selling a home formerly owned by a star can even be a tough sell. To the person with $25 million
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Unmanned aircraft equipped with specialised imaging devices could monitor the general status of remote gas fields in Russia. Anglo-Russian venture TNK-BP announced it was starting to organize a fleet of aerial drones to monitor its Samotlorskoe gas field in West Siberia. The aircraftwere developed especially for the company
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Marine authorities in the northeastern Chinese province of Liaoning near the North Korea-China border are using an unmanned aircraft to watch illegal activities in waters off North Korea. Since not many countries use UAS for coastal patrols, there is speculation that China wants to monitor North Korean defectors who
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According to the UK’s Independent Newspaper, Scotland Yard is understood to have spoken to the Civil Aviation Authority over the use of small radio-controlled devices in order to keep a watchful eye over the mega event. Though the Met Police already has three Eurocopter EC145 helicopters in Essex,
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Mojave Flight Systems LLC, located in the Mojave Desert of Western California and in Singapore, specialises in developing flight simulators for Commercial and General Aviation, so we were intrigued to learn that they were launching their own unmanned aircraft, the Explorer One, at a base price of $4,185. Michael
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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