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
Category Archives: Applications & Testing & Experience
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
World’s First Manned Flight with an Electric Multicopter
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
ANKA Completes 5th Test Flight
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
Thales and DCNS Extend UAS Deck Landing Trials
Thales and DCNS are planning supplementary technology demonstrations of a system for automatic ship deck landing of unmanned aircraft. Continue reading
US Navy Develops Guided Weapons Systems for Small UAS
Researchers from Naval Air Systems Command, Eglin Air Force Base, and engineering company Navmar Applied Science Corporation are developing a weapons system for small unmanned aircraft. Continue reading