Amsterdam-based designer Ruben Pater has created the Drone Survival Guide, a poster featuring to-scale silhouettes of common UAS and tips for spotting them in the style of traditional bird or airplane spotting guides. Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2013
India to Buy 15 Heron UAS from Israel
A proposal to procure 15 Heron UAS at a cost of around Rs 1,200 crore (USD 195M) was approved by the Cabinet committee on security headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at its recent meeting . Continue reading
General Atomics gets $362M US Air Force Predator Logistics Contract
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. has been awarded a $362,193,866 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for Predator (MQ1)/Reaper (MQ9) Unmanned Aerial Systems contractor logistic support sustainment. Continue reading
Low-Cost Test Platform UAS with 3D Printed Parts
PTERA is a scale 737 unmanned aircraft system with big implications for the world of commercial aircraft. Created by aerospace engineering company Area-I in Georgia, PTERA is the unmanned Prototype-Technology Evaluation and Research Aircraft yielding inexpensive flight research for commercial aircraft and NASA, and it’s using 3D Printing in a few instrumental ways. Continue reading
Dragonfly Pictures Builds Twin-Rotor UAS in Pennsylvania
“The technology is out of Pandora’s box,” said Michael Piasecki, President and Founder of Essington-based Dragonfly Pictures Inc. Working for the military, the Delaware County company has developed several UAS. Continue reading
FAA Selects Unmanned Aircraft Systems Research and Test Sites
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today announced the selection of the six public entities that will develop unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) research and test sites around the country. Continue reading
US DoD Roadmap Highlights
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DoD inventories and funding of UAS are expected to continue a gradual upward trend through 2015 and then trend downward in 2016 and beyond, although UAS experienced a full $1.3 billion (33.4%) reduction from fiscal year (FY) 2013 to PB2014 in combined research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) and procurement funding. Continue reading
NORAD Tracks Santa Programme Breaks All Records
The North American Aerospace Defense Command’s NORAD Tracks Santa Program exceeded its own records in the number of calls, emails and social media followers this year. Continue reading