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Once again, Northrop Grumman will be sponsoring the UAE Innovation Challenge 2012 in Abu Dhabi. The Competition Week is April 22-26, 2012, with the Flight Competition being held on 24 to 25 April , and the Awards Ceremony for the design, build and flying of an automated unmanned aircraft will take
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The RPAS 2012 conference, which takes place in Paris, France on 5-7 June 2012, will feature 45 speakers from international organizations (ICAO, JARUS), European organizations [European Commission Directorate General Enterprise & Industry, Directorate General for Mobility & Transport; European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), EUROCONTROL, ECAC, European Defence Agency (EDA), FRONTEX,
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An unmanned aircraft, built by Team Vyoma, a group of engineering students and professionals from RV College of Engineering in Bangalore, will feature in the SAE Aero Design Challenge 2012, an international aero design competition conducted by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) in collaboration with NASA and Lockheed Martin.
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The workshop on “Remote Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) and Optionally Piloted Aircraft (OPA) potential for European border surveillance and search and rescue (SAR) operations” will take place in Sofia, Bulgaria on 18 and 19 April 2012. The workshop is organized by Frontex, in cooperation with the Chief Directorate of Border
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Electronic Countermeasures @ GLOW Festival NL 2011 from liam young on Vimeo. The Electronic Countermeasures project is essentially an autonomous, roaming Internet swarm, constructed from repurposed UAS. The project is lead by Liam Young of think tank Tomorrow’s Thoughts Today and Unknown Fields Division, with assistance from Eleanor Saitta, Oliviu
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The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the Latin American Civil Aviation Commission (LACAC) are organizing a Seminar on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) for the Caribbean (CAR) and South American (SAM) Regions, which will take place at the ICAO SAM Regional and LACAC Offices in Lima, Peru, from 18 to
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The prototype of the new Denel DynamicsSeeker 400 is currently on display at the Denel Dynamics stand at Defence and Security Asia 2012, on March 5-8 in Bangkok, Thailand. The long-endurance tactical UAS is on track to make its maiden flight in the first quarter of 2012. “The decision by
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Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University will be hosting an Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Community Forum on Thursday, March 8, 2012, from 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm at its Prescott campus. During the presentation, Embry-Riddle will share its plans to properly educate and train future generations of UAS users. Earlier this year,
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An unmanned aircraft with a wingspan of 1.9 meters and weighing four kilograms – built by aeronautical and space engineering students at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology – won first place at a Tel Aviv Aviation and Space Conference. Recently, the same entry took the top prize in the recent US
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“Be nice to nerds…” - the opening line from Regina Dugan, the director of DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) at TED2012. The projects she demonstrated are extraordinary, and how they get there, even more so. If you want to understand how, ask yourself this question, ”What would you
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The ICAO Asia/Pacific Civil/Military Cooperation Seminar & Workshop took place at the regional headquarters of ICAO in Bangkok, Thailand from 28 February to 1 March 2012. This seminar/workshop had been convened by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), and had been organized in partnership with the European
VTOL
Israel Aerospace Industries will present new solutions for landing and take off of Unmanned Aircraft System, implemented in the Panther, at the 52nd Israel Annual Conference on Aerospace Sciences. The Israel Annual Conference on Aerospace Sciences is held every year by the Israel society of aerospace sciences. Lectures are given