U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) Air and Marine Operations (AMO) division announced late last week it is testing a programme to operate Predator drones from a civilian airport in San Angelo, Texas.
Category Archives: Applications & Testing & Experience
Project Combines Manned/Unmanned Aircraft Imagery
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The Apache Project Office and Redstone Test Center are teaming up and using a combination of manned and unmanned aircraft imagery to help pilots have greater situational awareness while in the air. Continue reading
UAV/UGV Joint Autonomy Demonstration
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin Company, using a UH-60MU BLACK HAWK helicopter enabled with Sikorsky’s MATRIX Technology and CMU’s Land Tamer autonomous Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV), recently participated in a joint autonomy demonstration that proved the capability of new, ground-air cooperative missions. Continue reading
Fuel Cell Quadcopter Flies 2 Hours with 4K Video
EnergyOr Technologies Inc., a supplier of advanced PEM fuel cell systems for aerospace applications, has demonstrated the world’s longest multi-rotor drone flight in real-world operating conditions. On December 16th , 2015, EnergyOr’s H2Quad 400 flew for over two hours while recording 4K video, using a 3-axis stabilizing gimbal to control the camera. Continue reading
Unmanned AirMule First Untethered Flight
On 30 December 2015, Urban Aeronautics’ AirMule completed its first autonomous, untethered flight at Megiddo airfield in northern Israel. Continue reading
Robotic Falconry – Drone Catcher System
Mo Rastgaar, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at the Human-Interactive Robotics Lab (HIRoLab) at the Michigan Technological University, has been working on a drone catcher, which could pursue and capture rogue drones that might threaten military installations, air traffic, sporting events—even the White House. Continue reading
Georgia Tech Tested UAV Swarm
Georgia Tech Research Institute and the Maneuver Center of Excellence have worked together in the past for various academic projects and services, along with agencies such as Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center, said Harry Lubin, chief of the experimentation branch at the Maneuver Battle Lab.
Chinese Amphibious UAV Conducts Maiden Flight
A China-made large amphibious UAV – “U650” – successfully conducted its maiden flight in the heavy fog and strong crosswinds above the waters in east China’s Jiangsu province in early December. The test flight lasted for 30 minutes. Continue reading