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India’s nationally developed, unmanned aerial target ‘Lakshya-1′ has been successfully test flown from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur. Lakshya-1, fitted with an advanced digitally controlled engine, was test flown from the launch complex-2 of the ITR successfully, defence sources said. The test was carried out to check the
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Boeing's video explains the process behind the Blended Wing Body aircraft, a remotely piloted experimental jet shaped like a manta ray. Bob Liebeck, Chief Scientist and Manager of the Blended Wing Project, explains how Boeing is working with NASA to explore fuel savings and other potential benefits of
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A non-profit organisation called ReAllocate is developing an art project — called Blue Sky — for Burning Man that will scan people and 3-D-print a model of them before delivering it by UAS using GPS tracking.Visitors to ReAllocate‘s dome — made out of shipping containers — at the notoriously creative festival will
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[youtube kYs215TgI7c nolink] For decades, academic and industry researchers have been working on control algorithms for autonomous helicopters — robotic helicopters that pilot themselves, rather than requiring remote human guidance. MIT’s Robust Robotics Group has set itself a tough challenge: developing autonomous-control algorithms for the indoor flight of GPS-denied airplanes.
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Aurora Flight Sciences' 3D wing, designed by Aurora and built with additive manufacturing technology developed by Stratasys Inc., was showcased at last week's announcement of the new National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute (NAMII) by senior officials of the Obama administration. The announcement of the new manufacturing technology
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New Mexico State University (NMSU), coordinating with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Federal Aviation Association (FAA), will use the Aeryon Scout system in a series of operational trials to determine the best concept of operations for small UAS (Unmanned Aerial Systems) to quickly assess storm damage to
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US intelligence agencies were just as obsessed with UAS spying 40 years ago as they are nowadays -- only then, it was pipe-smoking entomologists and watchmakers who were in charge of building prototypes.Back in the '70s, the CIA needed some kind of miniature flyer to deliver an audio
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To prepare for natural calamities, such as earthquakes, the 163rd Reconnaissance Wing and local emergency officials partnered to plan and execute Grizzly Field Exercise 2012, or GFX 12. The scope of the exercise included a simulated earthquake in Southern California with damage to the infrastructure, numerous injuries, and some fatalities.
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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,