Lyle Chamberlain a Research Engineer at Near Earth Autonomy, shows how Boeing’s Unmanned Little Bird uses LIDAR to identify the best landing site. Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2013
Police Service in Ontario to Get Aeryon Scout
The Chatham-Kent Police Services Board in Ontario, Canada (not the UK !) is thinking about getting an eye in the sky. Continue reading
Mass WW2 Fighter Flypast
This video shows the flypast of many aircraft, including several World War Two fighters during the final display at the Classic Fighters 2001 airshow held at Omaka Aerodrome, Blenheim, New Zealand. Continue reading
Boeing’s Phantom Swift X-Plane for DARPA
Boeing just posted this video of its Phantom Swift X-Plane prototype that was designed and built in less than a month. Continue reading
Special Operations Deploys Portable Unmanned Aircraft Bases
US Air Force Special Operations Command has taken its rapid-deploy strategy to a new fleet of aircraft: unmanned Predators. Continue reading
New Photogrammetry Software Adapted for UAS-Mounted Sensors
SimActive Inc., a developer of photogrammetry software, has announced the launch of a new UAS version of its Correlator3D product. With special pricing, this UAS version supports all non-metric small-format sensors. Continue reading
Insitu Gets $7M ScanEagle Maintenance & Upgrade Contract for Poland
Insitu Inc. is being awarded $7,264,250 for firm-fixed-price delivery order #0016 against a previously issued basic ordering agreement for hardware repairs and modifications to previously procured ScanEagle Unmanned Air Systems (UAS) for the government of Poland under the foreign military sales programme. Continue reading
Aerobiologist Tacks Airborne Microbes with UAS
Aerobiologist David Schmale hunts killers. An associate professor of food safety and plant biosecurity at Virgina Tech, Schmale sends UAS armed with petri dishes into the atmosphere to capture airborne crop pathogens. Continue reading