Testing
GKN Aerospace (Isle of Wight, UK) reported that it supplied many of the composite parts and structures for the second X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System Carrier Demonstration aircraft. The US Navy and Northrop Grumman completed first flight of the second UCAS-D air vehicle. As part of a multi-year contract, GKN
Commercial
Australia’s Minister for Tourism, Manufacturing and Small Business, Jan Jarratt, has announced plans to trial unmanned aircraft to catch illegal fishing vessels in waters off Queensland. Ms Jarratt said that the Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation has commissioned Brisbane-based Insitu Pacific Pty Ltd to conduct a series
Testing
Brock Technologies has announced that its Havoc Unmanned Aircraft System undertook its first flight on 24 October 2011. Brock Technologies claim that the UAS will ‘bridge the gap between affordability and capability’. The Havoc was developed under a series of Air Force SBIR contracts. The twin boom, pusher 2-stroke engine
Testing
The Naval Research Laboratory Vehicle Research Section has successfully completed flight tests for the Autonomous Deployment Demonstration (ADD) programme. The final demonstration took place on September 1 at the Yuma Proving Grounds, Yuma, Arizona, and consisted of a series of eight balloon-drops at altitudes of up to 57,000 ft.
Testing
Indra made a flight demo of two of its unmanned aircraft - Mantis plane and the Pelican helicopter - at Villamartin aerodrome (Cadiz, Spain) during the European Robotics Week. The Mantis is the smallest model (2,10 meter wing) of the family of UAS developed by the company. The system,
Testing
Sagem (Safran group) has successfully completed a series of flight tests of its long-endurance unmanned surveillance aircraft, Patroller. These 14 test flights, carried out at the Istres air force base in southern France from September 19 to October 21, met the following objectives: * Qualification of the aircraft’s in-flight performance,
Testing
Boeing has been using Odense Airport in Denmark for test flights of small unmanned aircraft. The tests involved designing new technologies to make unmanned aircraft able to fly more predictably and efficiently. Boeing chose Odense for its test flights, because there is plenty of capacity at the airport and place
Testing
Raytheon Missile Systems says that it has completed initial flight testing of its smallest air-launched guided weapon aboard a small unmanned aircraft. In a so-called captive-carry test in mid-September, the 12-pound Small Tactical Munition (STM) was flown aboard a Raytheon Cobra unmanned aircraft system at Yuma Proving Grounds, the company
VTOL
This video shows Schiebel's CAMCOPTER S-100 during a series of flights and trials onboard the French Navy’s new Gowind class OPV (Offshore Patrol Vessel), L'ADROIT at the beginning of November. During the four days of operation in the Bay of Biscay, the CAMCOPTER carried out
VTOL
Schiebel's CAMCOPTER S-100 successfully completed a series of flights and trials onboard the new Gowind class OPV (Offshore Patrol Vessel), L'ADROIT at the beginning of November, under the command and control of the French Navy. The L'ADROIT, built by DCNS and handed over to
Testing
At a live fire laser demo at the Rheinmetall’s Ochsenboden proving ground in Switzerland recently, international guests were able to view two laser weapon demonstrators in action, each featuring different performance parameters. A 10-kW laser was integrated into an air defence system consisting of an Oerlikon Skyguard 3 fire
Military
The second X-47B completed a successful first flight on November 22. Air Vehicle 2 (AV-2) took off under hazy skies from Edwards Air Force Base at 12:43 p.m. PST, climbed rapidly to an altitude of 5,000 feet, flew several racetrack patterns over Rogers Dry Lake, then landed