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An airborne sense-and-avoid (ABSAA) system enabling the Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk to fly in civil airspace will transition to full-scale development at the end of September after completion of a final round of research test flights. The multi-sensor system has been in development at the U.S. Air Force
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The U.S. Army's Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle (LEMV) flew for the first time from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., on August 7. The LEMV, a first-of-its-kind airship, took to the sky at 6:49 p.m. Eastern time and flew for more than 90 minutes over Lakehurst
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Cassidian is in discussions with the German Ministry of Defence concerning additional flight demonstrations under a programme to develop technology for future unmanned, surveillance and strike aircraft. EADS conducted the latest campaign of flights with its Barracuda unmanned aircraft demonstrator in Goose Bay, Canada, in July. The tests focused on
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The Boeing X-48C Blended Wing Body unmanned research aircraft took to the skies on its first-ever flight at 7:56 a.m. Pacific Time on August 7 from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base in California. The aircraft climbed to an altitude of 5,
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The Boeing Unmanned Little Bird H-6U helicopter successfully performed 14 autonomous take-offs and landings from a ship during flight tests last month. This is a significant milestone for a medium-size vertical-takeoff-and-landing UAS. For the tests, conducted from a private ship off the coast of Florida, Boeing integrated a commercial-off-the-shelf takeoff-and-landing
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Insitu Inc. has announced the first flight of the US Navy and U.S. Marine Corps Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System (STUAS) RQ-21A UAS. The 1-hour test flight of the UAS commenced at 1538 PDT on July 28 at an Insitu facility in eastern Oregon. “The government-industry team that achieved
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The SUAVe -- for Semi-autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle -- system developed by Vanderbilt and Aurora Flight Services should dramatically reduce the time it takes to map archaeological sites. Archaeological sites that currently take years to map will be completed in minutes if tests underway in Peru of a new system
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The US Navy made history July 30 after it conducted the Naval Air Station Patuxent River's initial flight of the X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstrator (UCAS-D). The 36-minute flight -- the first for the tailless, strike-fighter-sized aircraft since it was transported to the Navy base in June
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SELEX Galileo has successfully performed the maiden flight of its latest member of the market leader Falco Tactical Unmanned Aerial System (TUAS) family, dubbed FALCO EVO. The Falco EVO has a payload capacity of up to 100kg and an extended endurance of up 18 hours. It has flown exceptionally well
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High winds, rocky terrain, salt water and seabirds can make flying on the Oregon Coast challenging, even dangerous under the best of circumstances. For a team of researchers from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University these conditions represent the ideal laboratory for testing unmanned aircraft.
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Photo: General Atomics Aeronautical SystemsGeneral Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. announced that its Gray Eagle UAS has reached a record 10,000 successful automatic launch and recoveries with the Automatic Takeoff and Landing System (ATLS).The milestone was achieved on June 2 while it performed a routine surveillance mission in support
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The Douglas X-3 Stiletto was a 1950s United States experimental jet aircraft with a slender fuselage and a long tapered nose, manufactured by the Douglas Aircraft Company. Its primary mission was to investigate the design features of an aircraft suitable for sustained supersonic speeds, which included the first use of