Sierra Nevada Corporation’s Multi Sensor Detect Sense and Avoid (MSDSA) programme successfully completed its first airborne demonstration using a prototype, x-band radar sensor. Continue reading
Category Archives: Applications & Testing & Experience
Argus One Free Flight Testing at the US Department of Energy Nevada Test Site in December
World Surveillance Group Inc. has announced that that free flight testing and customer demonstrations of the Argus One will take place at the US Department of Energy Nevada Test Site (“N2S2”) in early December 2011. Continue reading
Spanish Students Build Unmanned Solar Aircraft
A team of seven students from the Terrassa School of Industrial and Aeronautical Engineering (ETSEIAT) of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. BarcelonaTech (UPC) have developed the technology for flying the Solar Endeavour UPC, Spain’s first photovoltaic-powered plane built by students. Continue reading
NASA Global Hawk Leads Stratospheric Humidity Research Programme
NASA's Global Hawk over Edwards Air Force Base - Photo: NASA / Carla Thomas
NASA’s Airborne Tropical Tropopause Experiment, or ATTREX, will conduct this research over the Pacific Ocean from three locations in 2013 and 2014. Continue reading
US Navy to Add Aerial Refuelling to X-47B
The US Navy has announced that it will add an aerial refuelling capability to at least one of the two X-47 prototypes sometime in 2014. Continue reading
X-47B Cruise Flight Video
Northrop Grumman posted this video of the first “cruise” flight of the US Navy’s X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System demonstration aircraft. Continue reading
US Naval Air Warfare Center Evaluates New Missions for AAI Shadow
AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems has announced that the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, UAS Test Directorate has established and demonstrated a dedicated Shadow Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System for test and evaluation purposes. Continue reading
Sandstorm in Montana
Photo : Patrick Cote/Daily Inter Lake
The Center for Remote Integration in Montana hosted a flight demonstration of the Sandstorm UAS on a remote airstrip south of Columbia Falls on Tuesday. This was the second flight demonstration of the aircraft, after that in Oklahoma in August. Continue reading