Australia’s Minister for Tourism, Manufacturing and Small Business, Jan Jarratt, has announced plans to trial unmanned aircraft to catch illegal fishing vessels in waters off Queensland. Continue reading
Category Archives: Applications & Testing & Experience
Brock’s Havoc Completes First Flight
Brock Technologies has announced that its Havoc Unmanned Aircraft System undertook its first flight on 24 October 2011. Continue reading
US Naval Research Laboratory Autonomous Deployment Demonstration Programme Completes Flight Testing
Tempest UAV airframe, designed and built by UASUSA, Boulder, Col., has a wingspan of nearly 10 feet and is constructed using fibreglass and carbon fibre composites
The Naval Research Laboratory Vehicle Research Section has successfully completed flight tests for the Autonomous Deployment Demonstration (ADD) programme. Continue reading
Indra Flies Mantis and Pelican at European Robotics Week
Indra made a flight demo of two of its unmanned aircraft – Mantis plane and the Pelican helicopter – at Villamartin aerodrome (Cadiz, Spain) during the European Robotics Week. Continue reading
Sagem Patroller Completes Flight Tests
Sagem (Safran group) has successfully completed a series of flight tests of its long-endurance unmanned surveillance aircraft, Patroller. Continue reading
Boeing Test Flights at Civilian Airport in Denmark
Boeing has been using Odense Airport in Denmark for test flights of small unmanned aircraft. The tests involved designing new technologies to make unmanned aircraft able to fly more predictably and efficiently. Continue reading
Raytheon Tests Air-Launched Guided Bomb from UAS
Raytheon Missile Systems says that it has completed initial flight testing of its smallest air-launched guided weapon aboard a small unmanned aircraft. Continue reading
Schiebel Camcopter on French Navy OPV Video
This video shows Schiebel‘s CAMCOPTER S-100 during a series of flights and trials onboard the French Navy’s new Gowind class OPV (Offshore Patrol Vessel), L’ADROIT at the beginning of November. Continue reading