Iran has unveiled indigenous cruise missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles as the country continues to break new ground in its defence industry. Continue reading
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BAE Develops Smart Skin Technology to Detect Damage on Aircraft
Work is underway at BAE Systems to give aircraft human-like ‘skin’, enabling the detection of injury or damage and the ability to ‘feel’ the world around them. Engineers at BAE’s Advanced Technology Centre are investigating a ‘smart skin’ concept which could be embedded with tens of thousands of micro-sensors. When applied to an aircraft, this will enable it to sense wind speed, temperature, physical strain and movement, far more accurately than current sensor technology allows.
American & Iranian UAS Share Airspace Over Iraq
Without getting too chummy the U.S. and Iran have been trying to work out some rules for each other’s use of UAVs now operating over Iraq. Iranian UAVs have been seen flying over Iraq since late June, apparently with the approval of the Iraqi government (and quiet assent of the Americans, who already had F-16s and UAVs over Iraq). Continue reading
UAS and the Ice Bucket Challenge
Austin Hill of Spark Aerial, lets a UAS dump ice water on his head to complete the Ice Bucket Challenge. Continue reading
Disney Patents UAS Applications
Thanks to a series of recently published patent applications, we now have an idea of where Walt Disney Imagineering is headed with future plans for night-time entertainment to take place over lagoons (which are specifically mentioned in the applications), although the technology can be applied virtually anywhere.
Amazon UAS in India – Really ?
Dennis Berman of The Wall Street Journal, discusses a report that Amazon will start testing deliver drones in India. Continue reading
UAS Journalism in Kenya
The pilot African SkyCAM project funded by the Africa News Innovation Challenge is using these unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in Kenya, and a follow-up initiative, africanDRONE, is planned to agree safe community standards for ‘drone journalism’ across Africa. Filming from a high vantage point helps bring a sense of scale to stories that might otherwise be unavailable to journalists in developing countries, says Dickens Olewe, African SkyCAM’s founder. Continue reading
Wind Tunnel Tests for UAVs in San Diego
The San Diego Wind Tunnel has been used to develop technologies in aerospace and Olympic sports for more than six decades. Two local companies, Aerial Mob and 3D Robotics recently used it to test their unmanned aerial vehicles. Continue reading