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At the Intel Developer Forum , Intel unveiled a new, hardware product — a ready-to-fly drone; specifically, a quadcopter, aimed at software developers rather than casual hobbyists or commercial drone operators. Intel’s drone is a fully assembled unit that runs on Intel’s Aero Compute Board with a Linux operating system,
Military
QinetiQ will provide the UK component of a multinational demonstration of unmanned and autonomous systems under a new contract with the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl). The demonstration, dubbed Hell Bay 4, will see a variety of unmanned underwater, surface and air vehicles working co-operatively within a number of
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Professional drone maker, senseFly, has teamed up with the popular aviation navigation app, Air Navigation Pro, to launch Safer Together. This joint initiative has been designed to address one of the biggest issues facing the General Aviation (GA) and unmanned aircraft communities: the risk of mid-air collision. Safer Together will
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August 1st marks the beta release of Zephyr, a drone training simulator that is uniquely designed for drone training and education developed by Little Arms Studios. The intent of Zephyr is to be the drone operator training tool educators want, combining accurate flight models and physics with a built in
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Two Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk (a.k.a. Warhawks) fighters at low altitude while displaying at the Classic Fighters Marlborough 2005 airshow. The shark-nosed P-40E of the Old Stick And Rudder Company is one of only two remaining airworthy Royal New Zealand Air Force P-40s. Source: YouTube
Transport
A newly published patent application almost literally delves into the nuts and bolts of the package-delivering drones that Amazon is developing – but it also makes clear that the look of the drones could vary, depending on where and how they’re being used. The proposed designs include quadcopters and octocopters,
Control Stations
Sinclair Community College has rolled out a $300,000 mobile ground control station that pairs live drones flying in the air with virtual simulations making training less risky and costly. The one-time ambulance turned control station on wheels was unveiled at the Unmanned Aerial Systems conference at the Dayton Convention
Military
General Atomics - Aeronautical Systems Inc., Poway, California, has been awarded a $370,932,862 firm fixed-price, incentive firm contract for fiscal 2015 MQ-9 Reaper production. Contractor will provide 30 aircraft for fiscal 2015 MQ-9 Reaper production configuration aircraft. Work will be performed at Poway, California, and is expected to
Events
Drone World Expo has announced that Intel Corporation, AeroVironment and Esri have all signed up as platinum sponsors of this defining event for the commercial applications of UAS technology which takes place at the San Jose Convention Center, Tuesday, November 15 - Wednesday, November 16, 2016. “The industry is fully
Events
Northrop Grumman conducted a mini-drone Olympic-type competition as a way to further foster innovation within the firm and advance small-drone ISR and attack technology. The rules were similar to basketball and constructed drones were evaluated according to technical, management and cost criteria. Four teams, each with multiple vehicles in play
Military
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA ASI), has announced that through a contract with the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), it executed a missile tracking test as part of the Pacific Dragon (PD) exercise held June 26-28 off the coast of the Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) in Kauai, Hawaii. Pacific
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Olaeris has performed a private flight demonstration of its AEVA unmanned aircraft system for a group of investors and aviation industry executives. Set against the backdrop of stormy weather, high winds and a flash flood warning, the company said it could not have ordered a better day to demonstrate the