Dassault released photographs of the Neuron UCAV (unmanned combat air vehicle) demonstrator in final assembly at Istres, France, and confirmed that the six-nation collaborative programme is on schedule.
Category Archives: Applications & Testing & Experience
US Navy Tests UAS Automatic Landing on Aircraft Carrier
A F/A-18D from the "Salty Dogs" of Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 23 makes and arrested landing aboard aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower ((U.S. Navy photo)
The US Navy is one step closer to demonstrating the first carrier-based recoveries and launches of an autonomous, low-observable relevant unmanned aircraft. Continue reading
Unmanned Video Gags
This video of ‘spectacularly unsuccessful’ experiments performed at the GRASP Lab was posted on YouTube last week – it could well have been a sequence from a ‘video gags’ TV show…
Northrop Grumman MQ-4C BAMS First Flight Set for Summer 2012
The first Northrop Grumman MQ-4C broad area maritime surveillance (BAMS) aircraft is on track for rollout in the spring of 2012, with first flight that summer.
Camcopter Integrated into New French Offshore Patrol Vessel
Schiebel has announced that it has partnered with French shipbuilder DCNS for the purpose of deploying its Camcopter S-100 Unmanned Air System onboard their new Gowind class of OPV (Offshore Patrol Vessel), L ADROIT which was launched in May. Continue reading
Global Hawk Performs Better in the Field than in Tests
Despite a dismal initial operational test and evaluation (IOT&E) report about the Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk Block 30, the US Air Force reports a relatively high operational reliability rating.
RQ-7B Shadow First Test Flight at NAWC Aircraft Division’s UAS Test Directorate
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
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.