Romanian authorities have decided that UAS weighing less than 150 kilos should be registered and insured before being used in Romania. Continue reading
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US Air Force to Send Two Global Hawks to Japan
Global Hawks, America’s largest unmanned surveillance aircraft, will fly out of Japan for the first time this summer, the Air Force says. Continue reading
Northrop Grumman MQ-8C Fire Scout Music Video
Northrop Grumman just posted this “music video”of the first flight of the MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopter. Continue reading
Woolpert Demos UAS for US Army Corps of Engineers
Woolpert, a national geospatial, architecture and infrastructure firm, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have tested a commercial unmanned aircraft system built for mapping applications during a joint test flight over the Wilmington Air Park in Ohio. Continue reading
Swedish Police Request UAS for Accident Investigations
The Swedish police have said they would like to use UAS to collect evidence at the sites of accidents, but with several high-profile cases of potential abuse, the authorities feel uneasy about the accessibility of equipment that collects overhead footage. Continue reading
Programming UAS to Fly Like Birds
Jack Langelaan’s lab in the basement of Hammond Building is a model airplane builder’s dream. In one room, graduate students Nathan Depenbusch and John Bird test algorithms on commercial flight simulators: Pilot’s eye views of checkered green landscapes roll past on banked computer screens. In the other room, a half dozen small planes and a couple of tiny helicopters sit waiting in various stages of deconstruction. Continue reading
Moth-Inspired UAS Stays Steady in 90 km/h Winds
Physical Sciences Inc (PSI) based in Andover, Massachusetts, in association with the US military, filmed hawk moths to see how they manage to stay aloft. Continue reading
UAS Date Back to ’60s Over China, N.Korea, Vietnam
One of the experts in early UAS technology, Col. John Dale, USAF retired, explained last Wednesday night at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Davis Auditorium how and why UAS were used by the Strategic Air Command (SAC) in the 1960s. Continue reading