Early this month, Liaoning General Aviation Academy displayed China’s first carbon material fuel cell powered UAS “LEINIAO”. Continue reading
Category Archives: Applications & Testing & Experience
Unmanned Systems Group First Flight of Discoverer II
Unmanned Systems Group (UMS) has announced the maiden flight of the Discoverer II Remotely Piloted Air System on 3rd September 2012 from the Karlskoga airfield in Sweden. Continue reading
General Atomics MQ-9 Block 1-plus Aircraft Completes Successful First Flight
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. announced the successful first flight of the Block 1-plus Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper, an upgrade to the original Block 1 Predator B that has been in production since 2003. Continue reading
India’s Lakshya Aerial Target Succeeds Test Flight
India’s nationally developed, unmanned aerial target ‘Lakshya-1′ has been successfully test flown from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur. Continue reading
Boeing’s Blended Wing Project Explained
Boeing’s video explains the process behind the Blended Wing Body aircraft, a remotely piloted experimental jet shaped like a manta ray. Continue reading
UAS Deliver 3-D Portraits for Blue Sky Project at Burning Man Festival
A non-profit organisation called ReAllocate is developing an art project — called Blue Sky — for Burning Man that will scan people and 3-D-print a model of them before delivering it by UAS using GPS tracking. Continue reading
MIT Algorithms Enable Autonomous UAS Fly to Indoors without GPS
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For decades, academic and industry researchers have been working on control algorithms for autonomous helicopters — robotic helicopters that pilot themselves, rather than requiring remote human guidance. Continue reading
Aurora’s Additive Manufacturing Wing
Aurora Flight Sciences‘ 3D wing, designed by Aurora and built with additive manufacturing technology developed by Stratasys Inc., was showcased at last week’s announcement of the new National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute (NAMII) by senior officials of the Obama administration. Continue reading