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Becker Avionics, a 65 year globally-renowned aviation industry supplier that works with the top 20 Aerospace OEMs, and commercial drone safety innovator, Iris Automation, have entered into a strategic partnership to increase the situational awareness of general aviation pilots and advance uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) safety. The two companies
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The new YellowScan Explorer can be mounted on a light manned aircraft or switched to different types of UAV platforms. The YellowScan Explorer is the first LiDAR that can be mounted on a light manned aircraft or helicopter and be switched to a UAV platform. This versatility allows the end
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A Honeywell breakthrough in compact satellite communications technology will bring the safety, connectivity and efficiency trusted for decades by airplane manufacturers and airlines to three of Pipistrel's exciting new aircraft, including the fixed-wing Surveyor and both unmanned Nuuva platforms, the V300 and smaller V20. Weighing in at
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Volz Servos has recently acquired Aircraft Electronic Engineering (AEE), an EASA approved production (Part 21G), maintenance (Part 145), and alternative design organisation (Part 21O). Volz is best known as a leading manufacturer of electromechanical actuators for unmanned aerial vehicles. Whenever and wherever performance, robustness and reliability are required, Volz’ products
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Autopilot platform innovator UAV Navigation is integrating Iris Automation's cutting edge detect and avoid Casia software into its advanced autopilot solution, VECTOR. UAVs equipped with VECTOR and Casia Detect and Avoid now have the ability to detect uncooperative crewed aircraft in their airspace and autonomously or manually take
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RedTail LiDAR Systems, a supplier of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) mirror-based LiDAR technology, unveiled the market introduction of the RTL-450 LiDAR sensor. The product will be launched at the XPONENTIAL 2021 Trade Show which is being held in Atlanta, Georgia from August 16-19. The RTL-450 incorporates a
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Embention has been working in air vehicle control since 2007. During these years, the company has been involved in the control of multirotors, fixed wing, tilting rotor VTOL, tilt wings, autogyros, etc. accumulating a vast experience in the flight management of all kinds of vehicle layouts. Fly-by-wire technology
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The TARSIS 75 UAS produced by AERTEC, the international technology company specialized in aeronautics and defence, has just carried out a flight campaign at the facilities of the El Arenosillo Experimentation Centre (CEDEA) for the Spanish Ministry of Defence. This is the first time in Europe that a laser designator
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The experimentation and demonstration campaign of the ECARO (Egnos Civil Aviation Roadmap) project, performed at Grottaglie Airport, has just concluded. Its results were discussed at the online conference GNSS-BASED AUTONOMOUS UAS FLIGHT - DEMO DAY, in which representatives of EUSPA (Eruopean Union Agency for the Space Programmes), ENAC, Aeroporti di
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uAvionix Corporation announced that, for the second time in as many quarters, it has certified a micro-transponder with the Department of Defense (DoD) Air Traffic Control Radar Beacon System Identification Friend or Foe Program Office (AIMS PO). The RT-2087/ZPX-A, now certified in accordance with the AIMS
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uAvionix has announced that it has conducted a milestone technology demonstration flight at the Northern Plains UAS Test Site (NP UAS TS) in Grand Forks, North Dakota. The 40-mile demonstration flight, witnessed by the NP UAS TS leadership team, combined the Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) flight control
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Trillium Engineering, a developer of gimbaled cameras for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), announced that it will be supplying Martin UAV with Orion HD80 camera systems in support of a next-generation UAS program. An advanced modified version of Martin UAV’s V-BAT 128 was selected to be the Navy’