URS Corporation has acquired the assets of Daleville, Alabama based CATI Training Systems, which specialises in delivering advanced visual image generation systems and high fidelity visual simulation terrain databases for simulators, which are used to train civil, commercial and military pilots. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: December 2011
First Graduation Ceremony for RPA Test Pilots in India
Air Vice Marshal RKS Bhadauria VM, Assistant Chief of Air Staff (Projects), IAF, visited the Aircraft and Systems Testing Establishment (ASTE) in Bangalore to attend Valedictory Function of the first Remotely Piloted Aircraft Flight Test and Evaluation Course on December 21st Continue reading
Activists Use UAS to Monitor Japanese Whaling Fleet
Second Mate Peter Brown launches the drone from the Steve Irwin - Photo: Sea Shepherd
An international non-profit society dedicated to protecting marine mammals says it is using unmanned aircraft to monitor a Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean.
UFO on Flatbed Truck in Kansas was an X 47-B
Residents in a small community in Cowley County, Kansas got the thrill of the year recently when a flatbed trailer came driving down main street with what appeared to be a saucer shaped craft on the trailer. Continue reading
NATO Cyber Attack Prevention Exercise
The Military Channel just posted this video of a NATO cyber-attack prevention exercise held recently in Belgium. Continue reading
Anatomy of May 5 Predator Crash in Kandahar
The unmanned aircraft had been in the air for close to five hours before its mission crew realized that something was wrong. Continue reading
US Army Issues RFI for Heavy Fuel or AVGAS Engine for AAI Shadow
The US Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM), Aviation and Missile Research, Development, and Engineering Center (AMRDEC) Redstone Arsenal, AL, on behalf of the US Army, desires to obtain information to serve as a market survey heavy fuel or AVGAS engine candidates that would fit the Shadow UAS with little or no modification to the airframe or engine. Continue reading
China Hacking Into American UAS Using Adobe Reader And Internet Explorer
A rash of new clues surrounding the Sykipot computer virus having its way with the US unmanned aircraft fleet suggests the malware originated in China, and explains how it has been used. Continue reading