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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'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
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
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
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
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
At the end of October 2011, Thomas Senkel of e-volo made the first manned flight with an e-powered multicopter at an airstrip in the southwest of Germany. Continue reading
Turkish Aerospace Industries’ (TAI) has announced that its Anka prototype completed its fifth flight on 22 October, “marking the beginning of the envelope expansion process”. Continue reading