Saturday was a big day at the Grand Forks Air Force Base. It became the primary base for all the Global Hawk missions in the United States. The base welcomed Secretary Heather Wilson and Senator John Hoeven for a new mission. Continue reading
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AirMap Supports NASA and FAA UTM Research Projects
Photo: NCDOT
The AirMap team has also been busy with several exciting drone demonstration projects throughout the United States. Continue reading
US Marine Corps C-UAS Experiment Ends this Year
Pierre-Olivier Nouges, left, and Bill Watson, right, take a look at the Light Marine Air Defense Integrated System, or LMADIS mounted on a MRZR all-terrain vehicle on the exhibit floor during the Sea Air Space Exposition at the Galylord National Convention Center in National Harbor, Md. on May 7, 2019.
A U.S. Marine Corps experiment that has deployed a counter-drone system on a Polaris MRZR all-terrain vehicle to the Mideast is winding down, according to a Corps official. Continue reading
Rega Rescue Drone Searches Autonomously
At its Annual Media Conference, Rega presented a new type of aircraft for searching for missing persons: the newly developed Rega drone can autonomously scan large search areas and is equipped with various sensors, such as a thermal camera. Continue reading
Boeing’s Cargo Air Vehicle – First Outdoor Flight
Boeing has successfully completed the first outdoor flight tests of the cargo air vehicle (CAV). In a safe and controlled environment, the electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) successfully took off, hovered, transitioned to forward flight and then landed safely. Continue reading
Wood Adopts Delair for Large Scale Surveying
Delair, a supplier of commercial drone solutions, along with one of its regional resellers, Frontier Precision, announced that Wood has adopted the Delair UX11 high-performance UAV for its work in site planning and asset management in mining and quarry projects in the western US. Continue reading
First Customer for Cylinder Drone
Massachusetts-based Ascent AeroSystems has announced the specifications, pricing, availability and launch customer for “Spirit”, its new dual-rotor coaxial drone and named Huntsville, Alabama-based Dynetics as the launch customer. Continue reading
FAA Statement on UAS Detection Systems at Airports
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) understands airport safety and security concerns raised by the malicious or errant use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). The agency shares these concerns. Continue reading