Over the weekend, the studio behind Star Trek Into Darkness took the film’s title literally, commissioning the flying of a giant, glowing Starfleet insignia in the London night sky. Comprised of 30 LED-illuminated quadrotors, the 308-foot-tall logo rotated in place 118 feet above ground (video below), before dimming its lights alongside those of Tower Bridge and Big Ben in recognition of the WWF’s Earth Hour conservation effort. Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2013
Journalism School Teaching Reporters How to Fly J-Bots
The emergence of UAS journalism is expected to become such a mainstay of the media industry in the next few years that journalism students at the University of Missouri Journalism School, in Columbia, Mo., are now taking courses how to use UAS to report stories. Continue reading
Google Glass App to Make Wheelchairs Eye-Controlled
What would you do with Google Glass? The company asked the public that question, with the hashtag #ifihadglass, to help find testers for its “explorer” programme. Continue reading
New Mexico State University Partners with AeroVironment for Study on UAS into NAS Integration at Night
New Mexico State University’s Physical Science Laboratory has partnered with AeroVironment to study the safety of small, unmanned aircraft system operations at night in the National Airspace System. Study results strongly indicate nighttime operations of unmanned aircraft systems are safe, maybe even more so than daytime operations. Continue reading
Aeroscout Offers Combined Laser/INS/GPS Payload Solution for Airborne Laser Scanning
Aeroscout in Switzerland has recently equipped several UAS helicopter systems with a combined laser/INS/GPS payload solution for airborne laser scanning. Continue reading
AgustaWestland “Project Zero” All-Electric Tilt Rotor Technology Demonstrator
The revolutionary AgustaWestland “Project Zero” all-electric tilt rotor technology demonstrator, designed, built and tested in twelve months, was officially unveiled just prior to the Heli-Expo 2013 in Las Vegas, USA. Continue reading
Simlat to Deliver a Mini-UAS Training & Simulation Center to the Finnish Defence Forces
Simlat Ltd. has been awarded a contract to deliver a UAS Training Centre including its high fidelity UAS training systems to the Finnish Defence Forces (FDF) as part of Mini-UAS contract awarded to Aeronautics Ltd. Continue reading
8 Totally Cool Uses for UAS
“I am convinced that the domestic use of UAS to conduct surveillance and collect other information will have a broad and significant impact on the everyday lives of millions of Americans,” Senator Patrick Leahy, chairman of a Senate Judiciary Committee looking into drone legislation, said on Thursday (March 21), CNN reports. Continue reading