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Yesterday saw the biggest turnout so far, with a sprinkling of uniforms adding colour and authenticity to the proceedings. The parallel sessions ad richness & variety but mean that inevitably a choice has to be made, which in my case meant focussing on Operational Experience (Military & Non-Military) and UAS
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Yamaha’s RMax unmanned helicopter was on display at the CRT Farmfest in Queensland, Australia, fitted with crop-spraying equipment for precision agriculture (PA). The debut of the racy-looking Rmax chopper, essentially a flying computer, takes the pilot out of the cockpit to make the technology more cost-effective. It ‘wowed’ visitors
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On the static display at the 49th International Paris Air Show, Cassidian will present combat proven UAS with the DRAC presented by the French Army which operates it in Afghanistan, videos presenting HARFANG last accomplishments and the future MALE TALARION with a scale 1 mock-up. With 30 years’ experience as
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The first session of the conference was dedicated to International Regulatory Activities, with presentations from ICAO, JARUS, Eurocontrol, European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), the Civil Aviation Authority, UK, and Federal Aviation Administration USA. To the surprise of some and to the delight of many, they all sounded as if they
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The 13th annual UAS Conference gets underway tomorrow in Paris at 2pm. First item on the agenda is a presentation of UVS International and its Board of Directors, an explanation of the Global Access Initiative, the activities deployed over the last 12 months, the objectives of the UAS 2011 conference
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The 9th Annual Edition of the International Unmanned Aircraft Systems Yearbook is currently at the printers and the first copies, hot off the presses, will be delivered to the UAS Conference 2011 in Paris next week. Delegates will be the first to get hard copies of what is without doubt
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During the opening plenary session at next week’s UAS Conference in Paris, Ron van de Leijgraaf, JARUS Chairman (CAA, The Netherlands) and Leader of the EUROCAE Small RPA Expert Group, will present an Activity Update on Small Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems Harmonisation. In April 2011, the European Commission, DG
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One of the biggest highlights at the forthcoming UAS 2011 Conference being held in Paris next week will be the session billed as the ‘EC UAS Panel & The European Commission’s Initiative Regarding the Development of a Strategy for the Future of UAS in the European Union.’ The presentation
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Five of the nearly 1,500 graduates from the University of North Dakota at a recent cermony were the first graduates in the nation with degrees in Unmanned Aircraft Systems operations. “It’s truly the first and only kind of its major program in the country at this point,” said
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The speaker line-up for this year’s UAS Conference in Paris on June 14-16, organised by B&C for UVS International, is now complete. In all there will be 58 presentations addressing all aspects of UAS (all sizes & classes), including standards, certification & ATM. UAS 2011 is without
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Z Microsystems, a provider of field-ready computing systems, has announced that it is presenting the live webinar Advancements in Full Motion Video for Military UAS Surveillance Applications on Tuesday, June 7, 2011, at 2:00 p.m. ET. Hosted by Defense Tech Briefs, a leading defense industry publication, registration for
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Lockheed Martin is demonstrating its full range of ISR and battlefield communication technologies at the Empire Challenge 11 exercises at Fort Huachuca, Arizona. It will feature Lockheed's Combat Edge, Vehicle Optics Sensor System II, MONAX, Sniper Advanced Targeting Pod, Desert Hawk III Unmanned Aircraft System, TacWarrior and Stratus