Events
On 25-27 October 2011 the UAS Latin America conference & exhibition took place at the Technology Park in Sao José dos Campos in Brazil. The conference, which was organised, under the auspices of UVS International, jointly by Blyenburgh & Co, France and Organização Brasilieira para o Desenvolvimento da Certificação Aeronautica
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The Technology Training Corporation is holding a two-day conference on “UAS Payloads – Needs, Capabilities and Opportunities.” The conference starts tomorrow, Tuesday November 15th at the Holiday Inn On-The-Bay, San Diego, California.The conference brings together innovators and decision makers from both the US Department of Defense and Industry to discuss
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UAS Norway is once again organising the largest UAS conference in the Nordic region - UNC-11 which will take place on November 15 th. 2011 at the Oslo Kongressenter, close to the Central Station. Last year’s conference gathered more than 80 delegates ranging from users to Member of Parliament.
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Aeryon Labs was presented with the prestigious Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE) 2011 Mind to Market Award at the Ontario Centres of Excellence annual general meeting held on Monday night in Toronto. Most notably Aeryon Labs developed the Aeryon Scout, an innovative, easy-to-use, battery powered, unmanned aerial intelligence gathering system
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Darpa convened a “cyber colloquium” at a northern Virginia hotel on Monday for what it called a “frank discussion” about the persistent vulnerabilities within the Defense Department’s data networks. The Pentagon can’t defend those networks on its own, the agency admitted.Because it’s the blue-sky research agency
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The German Aerospace Center (DLR), winners of the International Micro Air Vehicle 2011 Outdoor Competition in September, just posted this video of the event.The "Team DLR" was a joint effort to participate in an international micro aerial vehicle competition. It comprised DLR researchers of the Institute of
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The Army Aviation Association of America, Inc. has announced that the AAAA Unmanned Aircraft Systems Professional Forum will take place on December 14‐16, 2011, at the Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel, Arlington, VA.This event will bring together all aspects of the community -- Operators, R&D, Acquisition and
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The Navy-Industry International Dialogue (NIID) provides a Navy-Industry-Attaché-Foreign Procurement Group forum to address issues involving security cooperation and sea service concepts and programmes that help drive future capabilities for international maritime partnerships. This conference will focus on Unmanned Aerial Systems management and capabilities. The Navy is unique among the US
Research
This the entry from icarusLabs, a team of 10 MIT engineers with specialities in aerospace, control systems and artificial intelligence. Called Stingray, it is a hybrid aircraft with VTOL cpabilities. It has a weight of 9.9 lbs (4.5 kg), a wingspan of 72 inches (1.83 m), an
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The Federal Aviation Administration is competitively establishing a new Center of Excellence for General Aviation Research in 2012. The FAA will begin the competitive process by hosting a Public Meeting on November 17-18, 2011 in the Atlantic City, NJ area. The FAA issued a Preliminary Notice last week, announcing the
Research
Circino Flight Systems submitted a 3-year old video of its ‘Sentry’ Olecopter which tries to satisfy a number of problems with UAV's - combine VTOL performance with high speed in forward flight.A scaled down version (7 feet) of the airframe has been made, has been ground tested
Research
Nothing very original about team Dhaksha's Hexarotor entry from MIT ANNA University in India, though it does have the merit of being stable. DARPA's UAVForge Competition has moved from the "idea" stage to the "concept" stage of Phase 1, with the official