Aurora Flight Sciences announced today that the Swiss Department of Defence has become the first customer for the Centaur Optionally-Piloted Aircraft. Continue reading
Category Archives: Applications & Testing & Experience
Microflown Avisa Mounts Acoustic Vector Sensors On Board Unmanned Aircraft
Discovery Channel attended a first test by Microflown AVISA, and the MicroAerialVehicle Lab from TU Delft, conducted at Vredepeel airbase.
A Skywalker unmanned aircraft was equipped with both a fish eye camera and an Acoustic Vector Sensor. Continue reading
US Navy Flight Tests Unmanned Refueling Capability
Calspan Learjet surrogate seen from the tanker operator station aboard an Omega K-707 tanker aircraft - Photo: US Navy
As part of the Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstration (UCAS-D) programme, the US Navy and industry partner Northrop Grumman have been developing Autonomous Aerial Refueling (AAR) technologies to refuel unmanned aircraft in flight. Continue reading
MBDA Continues Live Saber Guided Bomb Flight Tests – Prepares to Weaponise Shadow
MBDA will begin a new round of live flight tests of its Saber guided bomb – one solution for weaponising the Shadow – later this year, according to Doug Denneny, the company’s Vice President of Business Development. Continue reading
DARPA UAVFORGE – icarusLabs Original Design
This ‘Proof of Flight’ video from icarusLabs posted in the DARPA uavforge competition shows candidly the various obstacles and solutions that the young engineers experienced in developing their entry. Continue reading
DARPA UAVFORGE Competition – Camera Stabilisation System Demonstration
This video of the Ecilop 1 camera stabilisation system by Aleksey Zaitsevsky is one of the more original entrants in the DARPA uavforge competition. Continue reading
Lockheed Martin to Develop Hybrid Renewable Energy UAS
Lockheed Martin won a $1.1 million contract Friday for development and ground demonstration of the integrated power system and payload into a SURGE-V hybrid UAV aircraft. Continue reading
DARPA UAVFORGE Competition Hits Milestone 2
The DARPA uavforge competition is approaching the deadline for Milestone 2, with voting for the ‘Proof of Flight’ videos due to end on January 22 nd. Continue reading