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PC-Aero unveiled four new Electric Aircraft at the Aero 2012 in Friedrichshafen, Germany this week – including the new Elektra One Solar with added solar panels on the wings, and the Elektra Observer LT, the company’s first ever unmanned electric aircraft. The company also announced a new strategic partnership with
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The Federal Aviation Administration is expected to soon green light the use of small unmanned aircraft by emergency services. Some sheriffs' departments in the Northwest are showing interest in these aircraft. A booth rented by Prioria Robotics drew a crowd this week at the 2012 Partners in Emergency Preparedness
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FAA will hold two webinars scheduled to discuss the identification of six test ranges/sites for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) integration into the NAS. This is a pilot project in response to the congressional mandate found in the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012, H.R. 658, Section 331(
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The Commercial and Civil Small UAS Conference hosted by Kansas State University and the Kansas Adjutant General’s Department, will take place on Tuesday, June 12 in Wichita, Kansas. The progress of small unmanned aircraft systems integration into the national airspace, their use in emergency and disaster response, and their
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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,