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The Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) is preparing to showcase its Anka and T-129, the national attack helicopter developed in cooperation with Italians, at a ceremony on June 28. The ceremony will take place on the anniversary of the approval of the law on the foundation of the company in 1984.
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The International Civil Aviation Organization will be holding the 12th Air Navigation Conference (AN-Conf/12) in Montréal, from 19 to 30 November 2012 with participation of its Member States and invited international organisations.The AN-Conf/12 will address the latest version of the Global Air Navigation Plan. This plan draws
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After a consultation to respond to an operational emergency, a tender has been won by INFOTRON and TOSA, and several systems have been ordered by the French Defence Procurement Agency (DGA) for the French Army. These systems provide advanced observation and detection capabilities for the Engineer Units, particularly in the
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BCB/AAI SQ-4 RECON Nano UAS Unmanned Aircraft for “Over the Hill” Observation and Reconnaissance was on display at the Textron/AAI stand at NDIA Special Operations Forces Industry Conference 2012 at Tampa Florida recently. Weighing in from just 198 grams, the SQ-4 RECON system offers a lightweight vertical takeoff
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Since leaving the Royal Navy in 2006 after a 23-year career, Neil Hunter worked with Thales Aerospace in the UK, responsible for leading on all worldwide future UAS opportunities for nearly 2 years before joining Schiebel in Austria in September 2008. His last appointment in uniform took him into procurement
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Peter La Franchi is an internationally respected unmanned systems sector analyst and former unmanned aviation editor of Flight International magazine. Peter’s interest in privacy law stems from working as a specialist researcher in the former Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission during 1988-1989, a time when Australia brought
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Jeffery E. Bauer is NASA’s liaison for Unmanned Aircraft System airspace integration activities. He serves on the Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Executive Committee Senior Steering Group. Mr. Bauer has over 20 years experience in flight research with UAS during which he acquired a thorough understanding of the issues confronting
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Lieutenant-Colonel Craig Palmer has been Commanding Officer of the 32nd Regiment Royal Artillery since May 2011 - the unit that operates a variety of UAS in support of UK ground forces in Afghanistan. In his presentation he revealed that Camp Bastion in Helmand is the UK’s third busiest airport
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Colonel Gilles Randreau was the officer in charge of UAS programmes in the Army staff, from 2008 to 2011. In 2011, he became the commanding officer of the 61st Artillery Regiment. Deployed in Afghanistan since 2008, the French Sperwer tactical UAS have been performing a wide panel of missions, from
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Bjoern Symank is a former German Army Aviation Captain who entered service in 1997 and went through several operational deployments as a transport helicopter pilot. During that time he also realised several software projects for the Armed Forces. In 2008, he learned the peculiarities of the German procurement system as
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Flying Robots debuted the FR102+ at the RPAS 2012 Conference currently being held in Paris. Since 2004, Flying Robots SAS France has developed a unique know-how on soft wing para-motors and UAS. The last development is the FR102, which integrates several aerial surveillance and satellite communication systems. Thanks to a
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Squadron Leader VS Srinivasan retired from the Flying(Pilot) branch of the Indian Air Force on 31st March 2010, after a challenging tenure of 11 years and 3 months.Born on 27th March 1976, Srinivasan is an alumnus of the prestigious National Defence Academy. His passion for flying saw him