The use of UAS mounted cameras will play significant part in enhancing polo’s coverage, according to the sport’s leading live streaming service.The size of the field, lack of video replays and watching from pitch level – largely from afar – has often given newcomers to the sport a hard task in understanding polo’s dynamics. Continue reading
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Belorussia Offers UAS Production with Turkmenistan
Belarus is ready not only to supply unmanned aerial vehicles to Turkmenistan, but also to organise a co-production, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said in Minsk last week.
A Drone By Any Other Name…
At a drone conference in Washington, D.C., last year, the trade group running the event sent a not-so-subtle message to the journalists there: The Wi-Fi password was DONTSAYDRONES in the press room.
Hawk Attacks QuadCopter in Cambridge Park
On Oct 8th, Christopher Schmidt was flying his quadcopter at Magazine Beach Park in Cambridge, when a hawk decided he wasn’t too happy with his invasion of his airspace… Continue reading
NATO User Group for Reapers Established
A NATO Members User Group for the GA-ASI MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is being established. According to Frank Pace, President of GA-ASI, it will provide a forum for new European Reaper operators to understand U.S. tactics, techniques and procedures, and to arrange mutually beneficial support solutions. The UK and France already operate Reapers, and the Netherlands will buy four, according to Pace. Germany remains a potential customer, he added, although it might wait for the certifiable Predator B. This version of the Reaper is on schedule to fly in late 2016, Pace added. Continue reading
FAA Statement on MITRE’s Independent Assessment and Recommendations for NextGen
An undertaking as complex as the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) deserves thorough, periodic evaluation to consider what the aviation community has accomplished to date, where things stand, and where the effort is headed. At the FAA’s request, MITRE/CAASD has conducted such an assessment over the last several months and has delivered its recommendations to the FAA. Continue reading
Unmanned Aerial Spy Photography from 1907
In 1914, early on in the new Great War, one German inventor thought his way of taking photographs from the sky would be able to help the small number of airplanes available for the job. Back in 1907 Julius Neubronner had invented a small, automatic camera that could be strapped to a homing pigeon (these birds were already widely used by armies for carrying messages).
Whistleblower Accuses Northrop Grumman of Fudging GPS Systems Testing
An employee of Northrop Grumman has accused the company of faking tests on its LN-100 Inertial Navigation System/Global Positioning System (INS/GPS). The GPS unit is installed on “various aircraft, including helicopters and unmanned drones (including the Predator), missiles, submarines, and other vehicles,” the lawsuit said. The LN-100 provides essential positioning data to the sensitive systems. Continue reading