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Martin Aircraft's jetpack passed a key test this month by soaring to a height of 5,000 feet, deploying an emergency parachute and drifting back down to New Zealand's Canterbury Plains. "This successful test brings the future another step closer," Glenn Martin, the jetpack&
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Georgia Tech Research Institute officials were gathered on May 12-13 for another examination of a foreign-made unmanned aircraft system built with off-the-shelf commercial parts. The demonstration was designed to simulate a growing UAS threat to U.S. forces, test its capabilities for accuracy and validate the
Military
Firebird optionally piloted systems, RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft, ScanEagle unmanned aircraft systems, and Desert Hawk unmanned aircraft systemsare among the technologies being tested during U.S. Joint Forces Command’s Empire Challenge 2011 demonstration. The demonstration kicked off May 23 and continues through June 3, bringing together more
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New Mexico State University's Unmanned Aircraft Systems Flight Test Center supported AAI Corporation's Shadow 200 Tactical UAS in conducting flights over the skies of Hatch, N.M. These were four-dimensional flight tests in support of efforts by the Federal Aviation Administration Tech Center to further
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This video is now available of the Hyperion, which was first presented at the University of Colorado Aerospace Engineering Design Symposium on April 15, which we wrote about earlier in March. It serves as a test-bed for research and development in the following focus areas: aerodynamics, structures and materials,
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Aerobat Aviation Inc and Attopilot International have teamed up to add an autopilot to the innovative circular flying wing design. Aerobat Aviation, Inc was created to produce individual entities within the business that deploy and service systems based on the circular wing aircraft, called the "GeoBAT". The Company
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A successful flight test of Rustom 1 Unmanned Aircraft was conducted on Monday of this week. Rustom 1 being developed by the Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE), a DRDO lab engaged in pioneering R&D work in the field of aeronautics. The aircraft has an endurance of 14 hours and
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Northrop Grumman has just released video of the MQ-8B Fire Scout conducting first test flights from the U.S. Navy's littoral combat ship, USS Freedom (LCS 1) in November 2010. Source: Northrop Grumman
Electronic Sub-Systems
Northrop Grumman Corporation has successfully demonstrated that its Heterogeneous Airborne Reconnaissance Team (HART) system increases warfighter situational awareness during a recent Spiral 7 DARPA field exercise conducted March 7-18, 2011, at Dugway Proving Grounds, Utah. The HART system autonomously manages a mix of manned and unmanned aircraft and sensors
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Phantom Eye being assembled at NASA Dryden, minus engines. The engines are undergoing testing at another facility. First flight is expected in early August, said Boeing.
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Israel’s Urban Aeronautics announced that its AirMule prototype has recently resumed its flight testing after a systems and structural upgrade that lasted 4 months. The ducted fan load lifter is now flying with an expanded sensors suite and the new, energy absorbing wheeled landing gear. This landing gear has
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Robonic Ltd Oy has successfully demonstrated the high speed launch of representative unmanned air systems in the 100 kg range at speeds of 70 meters per second. The demonstration launches, conducted in February 2011, are part of a continuing company programme to expand the capability envelope of the Robonic pneumatic