High tech wizards from across Texas gathered in Wimberley last Saturday to share what they’ve learned developing high tech, remote controlled aircraft. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: December 2011
Iran’s RQ-170 – Real or Fake ?
Photo: The Aviationist
A former senior Pentagon official with extensive knowledge of unmanned aircraft expressed great scepticism of the aircraft supposed to be a stealth RQ-170 shown on Iranian television.
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Gets $319M Contract for 40 MQ-9 Block 40 Reapers and Containers
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Poway, California, is being awarded a $319,236,484 firm-fixed-price contract for 40 MQ-9 Block 1 aircraft, and 40 aircraft containers. Continue reading
TAAC Conference Flying Demonstrations
Local TV Station, KASA Fox, broadcast this report of the live flying demonstrations at the annual national UAV convention organized by the Technical Analysis and Applications Center (TAAC) from New Mexico State University. Continue reading
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Gets $9M Ground Control Station Contract
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Poway, California, is being awarded a $9,381,403 firm-fixed-price contract for the delivery order for seven Fixed Ground Control Stations. Continue reading
NASA Advisory Council Aeronautics Committee Unmanned Aircraft Systems Subcommittee Meeting
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration announces a meeting of the UAS Subcommittee of the Aeronautics Committee of the NASA Advisory Council. Continue reading
Iran Shows Off Downed RQ-170 on State TV
Iran has released video of the unmanned Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel that apparently crash-landed inside Iran. Continue reading
US Weighed 3 Options for Destroying Downed RQ-170
US officials considered a covert raid to either destroy or recover the wreckage of a stealth RQ-170 unmanned aircraft that crashed in the rugged terrain of Eastern Iran last week, but decided that a military operation of that nature might spark a declaration of war from that country’s leadership. Continue reading