VTOL
Danish company Sky-Watch was present at Farnborough, displaying its Huginn X1 quadrotor system. The flight control system keeps it stable in winds of up to twenty-three knots, and its sensor suite includes a sonar to avoid collisions, stay clear of the ground and only land where there are no obstructions.
Accidents
A happy celebration video shoot of a La Vegas wedding turned horribly wrong when the Parrot AR Drone filming the event crashed into the world-renowned "Welcome To Las Vegas" sign.Luckily for the hapless pilot, the Clark County Fire Brigade came to the rescue and were then rewarded
Testing
QinetiQ is working with the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) to establish a new Unmanned Air Systems Capability Development Centre (UASCDC) to support the rapid development of UAS programmes from concept to deployment. The new Centre, the first of its kind in the UK will have a hub at MOD
Events
At Farnborough Airshow, EADS Innovation Works is presenting the prototype of a portable UAS produced by Additive Layer Manufacturing (ALM) technology, also known as 3D-printing. The plane with a wingspan of approximately. 1.5 meters has been designed by students from the University of Leeds. The small, portable UAS will
Military
The Pentagon is considering awarding a Distinguished Warfare Medal to UAS pilots who work on military bases often far removed from the battlefield. Pentagon officials have been briefed on the medal’s “unique concept,” Charles V. Mugno, head of the Army Institute of Heraldry, told a recent meeting of the
News
MBDA is unveiling an innovative concept weapon system for 2030, the CVS301 VIGILUS, at the 2012 Farnborough International Airshow. Vigilus is a suite of future strike weapons for UAS that provides a revolutionary close air support capability to battlefield UAS. Allowing the UAS to remain at a safe stand-off distance,
Testing
The UAV Factory team expanded the boundaries of the unmanned aircraft capability by performing a nonstop 54 hour and 27 minute flight of the Penguin B - the longest recorded flight for a mini-class unmanned aircraft. The previous longest endurance mini UAS flight was achieved by AAI’s Aerosonde in
Military
More interesting screenshots, taken from a documentary about the Great Prophet 7 exercise held in Iran recently reveal several new types of UAS currently being developed by Tehran. The first one (above) shows the somehow famous “Pahpad” drone, used by Syria to spy on the clashes in Homs. The second
News
They belong to the most skilled and equipped top elite units within the "Middle Kingdom", the Chinese Armed Police Forces (CAPF). The General himself personally made the long journey to Germany to hand over the Golden Emblem of the CAPF to the engineer Udo Juerss, the CTO of
News
This is an image of a gigapixel camera currently being developed by DARPA’s Advanced Wide FOV Architectures for Image Reconstruction and Exploitation (AWARE) programme. As part of the programme, DARPA successfully tested cameras with 1.4 and 0.96 gigapixel resolution at the Naval Research Lab in Washington, DC.
Military
Some interesting screen shots, taken from a documentary about the Great Prophet 7 exercise held in Iran last week expose several new types of unmanned aircraft currently being developed by Tehran. The above is a brand new aircraft seemingly available in dual configuration: landing gear (image above) or skids (image
Events
Now in its 22nd year, the Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors’ Showcase hit the Cannes Lions Festival - the festival of creativity - again, unveiling another presentation of the new directorial talent. Marshmallow Laser Feast (Robin McNicholas, Memo Akten and Barnaby Steel) were the creative and technical directors of the