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The developers of the Sprite, a small, durable drone that offers an alternative to larger, generally more fragile quad-copter drones, have been presented with the latest Proto Labs Cool Idea! Award, a service grant given to innovative companies by quick-turn manufacturer Proto Labs, Inc. The popularity of drone aircraft for
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Listen to the awesome whistling sound of the Royce Merlin engine as this veteran fighter aircraft ('Marinell' of the Hardwick Warbirds collection) swoops by at the 2014 Little Gransden Air and Car Show, held at Little Gransden, England. Source: YouTube
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A two-decade-old Rs 90 crore Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) programme has proved a dud, with the Indian Army shelving the system and cancelling any further orders after three of the four systems supplied by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) ended up in crashes. As a result, DRDO may
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Thales' Spy’Ranger is a latest-generation mini-UAS with the only EO/IR imaging system in the world capable of transmitting high-definition electro-optical and infrared imagery in real time.The system draws on a decade of experience of micro- and mini-UAV systems with the French armed forces and offers particularly
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At Drone World Expo, DreamHammer announced the release of a drone operating system, DroneOS, to include industrial-grade avionics and operator ground control system. DroneOS is now available in beta release to a limited number of key customers with a full release planned for 2016 to DreamHammer’s enterprise-customer pipeline. DreamHammer
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Precision Hawk is helping the FAA work out how unmanned aircraft could safely fly beyond the line of sight of their pilots. A series of flight tests scheduled to start Monday in Butner, North Carolina, will help determine whether and how the Federal Aviation Administration will let that dream come
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SkySentry, a developer of lighter-than-air unmanned systems, has announced that it has completed successful baseline performance testing of a self-contained ad hoc aerostat network covering a 300 square mile area, providing cell phone, text, geo location and video surveillance capability for disaster and emergency management applications. “We achieved the integration
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Cameras flown on drones could be used to detect leaking underground water pipes over hundreds of miles of desert, according to new research by Nottingham Trent University. A study led by Professor Amin Al-Habaibeh, from the School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment, shows how infrared technology could be
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Stratasys Ltd, a provider of 3D printing and additive manufacturing solutions, and Aurora Flight Sciences, an aeronautics research company, have announced that the two firms have created what they claim is the largest, fastest, and most complex 3D printed unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) ever produced. Unveiled for the first time
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A remotely piloted aircraft achieved an important research milestone last month when a sub-scale "flying wing" glider successfully completed a series of flight tests. The remotely piloted glider prototype is the third iteration of the Preliminary Research Aerodynamic Design to Lower Drag (Prandtl-D No. 3) aircraft. Previously, development
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The Army Research Lab, or ARL, is testing UAVs that might sport wings that flap like a bird or a butterfly at the Spesutie Island Robotics Research Facility on Chesapeake Bay. John W. Gerdes III, mechanical engineer at the Vehicle Technology Directorate, has been testing such a UAV, known as
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Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport authorities confiscated a total of 38 small unmanned aircraft systems or drones in the past three months. Assistant commissioner Md Shahiduzzaman Sarkar of Dhaka Customs House told Prothom Alo that no one had contacted to take back the seized drones. However, the last 10 drones that