The RQ-7B Shadow Unmanned Aircraft System conducted its first-ever test flight under the direction of NAWC Aircraft Division’s UAS Test Directorate at Webster Field, Md., June 21. Continue reading
Category Archives: Applications & Testing & Experience
Skycar Gets FAA Experimental Airworthiness Certificate – Thunderbirds Are Go !
The world imagined in a 1960 Science-Fiction TV Series took a step closer to reality with the announcment by Moller International, Inc., the developer of the Rotapower line of rotary engines and the Aerobot line of Unmanned Aircraft Systems, that the Federal Aviation Administration has accepted its application for Experimental Airworthiness Certification of the M400 Skycar.
Revolutionary Form of ‘Airborne Auto-Motion’ from Austria
Boeing A160 Hummingbird Begins Final Proving Phase
A decade-long investment in the unmanned, long-endurance A160 Hummingbird helicopter is set to enter a final proving phase at the end of the month. Boeing plans to deliver the first of 20 new production aircraft assembled in Mesa, Arizona by the end of June to a flight-test facility in Victorville, California.
Sikorsky Experiments Fly-By-Wire for Unmanned Black Hawk
Sikorsky hopes to demonstrate an optionally piloted resupply mission using a fly-by-wire-equipped UH-60M Black Hawk utility helicopter by the end of this year. Continue reading
Eurohawk Ready for Testing in Germany
Northrop Grumman and Cassidian have confirmed that the Euro Hawk test-bed, the German version of the RQ-4 Global Hawk, will fly to Germany for payload integration and testing.
Innocon MicroFalcon Tests Complete for Peru Army
Innocon’s MicroFalcon mini unmanned aircraft system has completed flight testing as it nears delivery to the Peruvian army.
Shadow Flies with GE Flight Management System Designed for Manned Aircraft
AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems, an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. company, and GE Aviation announced that the Shadow Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System has completed a flight demonstration using the GE Flight Management System (FMS), a four-dimensional trajectory FMS certified for use in manned commercial aircraft.