A Life Flight helicopter pilot avoided a catastrophe, when a drone nearly collided with the chopper as it flew above the Schuylkill County Joe Zerbey Airport. Continue reading
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Facebook Expands Drone Team
Facebook is bulking up its drone team.The company has posted more than a dozen jobs for aeronautical engineers, technicians and other specialists for its drone business. It’s all part of Facebook’s plan to connect the whole world to the Internet using drones, lasers and satellites. Continue reading
Japan to Buy Three Global Hawks
Japan will buy three Global Hawks and may fly them out of Misawa Air Base, according to Japanese media. State Broadcaster NHK and the Kyodo news agency reported Monday on plans to buy the Northrop Grumman-built Global Hawks along with four E-2D Advanced Hawkeye early-warning aircraft. Continue reading
General Atomics Tests Proof-of-Concept SAA System
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.has announced two key technological advances related to its ongoing Sense and Avoid (SAA) system development efforts.In collaboration with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Honeywell, GA-ASI tested a proof-of-concept SAA system, marking the first successful test of the FAA’s Airborne Collision Avoidance System for Unmanned Aircraft (ACAS XU). Continue reading
Piaggio Aerospace Inaugurates Aerospace Centre of Excellence
Piaggio Aerospace recently inaugurated its new aerospace center of excellence at Villanova d’Albenga, Italy, in the presence of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, Minister of Defence Roberta Pinotti, numerous civilian and military authorities, and more than 500 international guests and company employees . The new manufacturing plant is at the forefront of aerospace technology with the capacity, systems, and processes to make it one of the world’s most advanced industrial aerospace plants. Continue reading
Corpus Christi UAS to Fly on Multiple Axes
Researchers at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi believe they are months away from launching a new type of unmanned aircraft capable of flying on multiple axes. Continue reading
Iran Showcases New Version of Mohajer-Class UAS
An upgraded version of Mohajer (Migrant), one of Iran’s homegrown Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), has gone public with distinguishing features compared to its older model. Continue reading Sagem Successfully Integrates UAS into Manned Airspace
Sagem (Safran) has just completed a series of flight tests demonstrating the feasibility of a UAS being integrated in a shared (manned/unmanned aircraft) airspace, in compliance with civil aviation regulations and air control procedures. Continue reading