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The day the legendary test pilot Chuck Yeager shattered the sound barrier in 1947, Robert H. Widmer marched into his boss’s office at the Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation in Fort Worth to say he wanted to design the world’s first supersonic bomber. He was told to stick to the contracts the company was already fulfilling.
Israel Aerospace Industries has signed a joint venture with Brazil’s Synergy Group to provide the conglomerate with UAS under the condition that the aircraft should not be sold to Venezuela.
Oklahoma’s Secretary of Science and Technology says groundwork is being done to set up an air corridor to allow unmanned aerial vehicles to fly between airports in Lawton and Clinton. Continue reading
Microsemi Corporation is introducing a 9Gb (gigabit) DDR3 SDRAM memory device that is the first of its kind to be packaged in a single plastic ball grid array (PBGA) and offered as a compact x72 dual in-line memory module (DIMM).
The future of electric flight will be on display & in action at eVenture 2011, a feature of EAA AirVenture Oshkosh from July 25 – 31. Elektra One will be one of the highlights of the Electric Flight Showcase.
On a two-day trip to the Aleutian Islands in Alaska earlier this month, researchers from Poker Flat Research Range evaluated the performance of a new unmanned aircraft system that will be used to monitor Steller sea lions.
As the German air force maps out its future unmanned aircraft plans, it is looking to acquire up to four high-altitude unmanned aircraft for wide-area surveillance.
Designers of control stations for unmanned vehicles primarily use commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) embedded products, but there has never been a common architecture developed for all UAS ground control stations.