The US military’s premier joint exercise to test countermeasures to protect against enemy unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) began on 29 July and run until 11 August at Naval Air Station Point Mugu in California. Continue reading
Category Archives: Applications & Testing & Experience
UAS Variable-Pitch Propeller Ready for Flight Testing
After years of research, Thunder Bay’s Aerovate Inc. will flight-test its variable-pitch UAS propeller system this summer, with the goal of bringing the technology to market this fall. Continue reading
Scion Gets FAA R&D Certification for SA-400 Jackal OPV
Scion UAS, developers of VTOL unmanned and optionally piloted aircraft systems, has received FAA certification for the SA-400 Jackal optionally piloted vehicle. The vehicle, which can carry a 100 lb payload for more than 5 hours, received an FAA Special Airworthiness Certificate for Experimental Research and Development. Continue reading
Solar Technology Improves UAS Flight Duration
During a keynote at the small unmanned systems business expo in San Francisco, California, on July 25th., Alta Devices’ CEO Christopher Norris explained that small unmanned aircraft Systems (UAS) are no longer constrained to short-range or limited flight times and are now able to fly as long as the sun is shining. Continue reading
Northrop Grumman Calls on German Government to Salvage EuroHawk
US aerospace group Northrop Grumman called on Monday for Berlin to join the company in working to salvage the failed multimillion-euro euro project that has threatened the political life of the country‘s Defence Minister. Continue reading
Deployable Air Land Exploration Robot Can Walk and Fly
The Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at Lausanne Polytech in Switzerland is developing a novel flying platform which has the ability to move on the ground by using its wings only. EPFL’s DALER – Deployable Air Land Exploration Robot – has the wings mounted on shafts that can either be locked or rotate. Continue reading
Improved Gray Eagle Completes Initial Flight Test
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. has announced the successful first flight of the U.S. Army’s Improved Gray Eagle (IGE), a next-generation derivative of the combat-proven Block 1 Gray Eagle Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) that has accumulated over 70,000 flight hours since 2008. The flight occurred today at the company’s El Mirage Flight Operations Facility in Palmdale, California.
US Coast Guard Cutter Deploys ScanEagle and Captures Smugglers
The US Coast Guard has completed the second of three planned shipboard demonstrations of unmanned aircraft system (UAS) capabilities aboard Coast Guard Cutter ‘Bertholf’ .