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Loss of telemetry downlink signal and an unprogrammed pitch over caused the crash of an MQ-1B Predator 7.5 nautical miles North of Holloman Air Force Base, N.M., Oct. 30, 2013, according to an Air Combat Command Accident Investigation Board report released on Thursday. Continue reading
As the federal government decides how to regulate drones in the U.S., states are moving on their own. Check out the status of drone legislation in individual states here.
Source: Market Watch
The key challenge in developing a “sense-and-avoid” system has been developing technology that can reliably detect the presence – and the course – of other aircraft and to engineer it into a package small enough and light enough for UAS. Researchers at the University of Denver’s Unmanned Systems Research Institute may have the answer.
Melbourne-based company, I-Drone, has developed the ‘Projector Drone’ which is capable of beaming news, games and advertising over the walls of buildings. The proof of concept aircraft is able to fly for 12 minutes at a time, features its own on-board data storage and a 500 lumens projector. Continue reading
There’s nothing quite like the whistling sound of a Supermarine Spitfire as it dives down toward you on the ground. Crank the volume up on this one which shows a few clips from a Spitfire display at Omaka Aerodrome, Blenheim, New Zealand. Continue reading
Israel’s BlueBird Aero Systems has been awarded a contract to supply its MicroB small unmanned air system to an undisclosed NATO member in western Europe.
Pix4D’s pre-summer challenge was to create a highly accurate and very dense 3D model of Chillon Castle (Château de Chillon), Switzerland’s most visited historic monument. The 3D point cloud integrates the indoor and outdoor structures of this highly complex architectural object with a resolution of up to 5mm and is based on both aerial and terrestrial images acquired with DJI Phantom 2 Vision, GoPro Hero 3+, Canon 6D and Sony alpha 7r cameras with Fisheye lenses. Continue reading
MAVinci has launched a new near infrared camera option for the SIRIUS and SIRIUS pro UAS. It provides relative NDVI-indices from the minimum to maximum value in the image.