Firebird optionally piloted systems, RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft, ScanEagle unmanned aircraft systems, and Desert Hawk unmanned aircraft systemsare among the technologies being tested during U.S. Joint Forces Command’s Empire Challenge 2011 demonstration.
Category Archives: Applications & Testing & Experience
NMSU Conducts 4 Dimension Test Flights with AAI Shadow
New Mexico State University’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems Flight Test Center supported AAI Corporation’s Shadow 200 Tactical UAS in conducting flights over the skies of Hatch, N.M. These were four-dimensional flight tests in support of efforts by the Federal Aviation Administration Tech Center to further UAS flights in the National Airspace System.
University of Colorado’s Hyperion Flies
This video is now available of the Hyperion, which was first presented at the University of Colorado Aerospace Engineering Design Symposium on April 15, which we wrote about earlier in March.
GeoBAT Flying Saucer from Aerobat Aviation Inc.
Aerobat Aviation Inc and Attopilot International have teamed up to add an autopilot to the innovative circular flying wing design.
India’s Rustom Completes Succesful Test Flight
A successful flight test of Rustom 1 Unmanned Aircraft was conducted on Monday of this week.
Northrop Grumman MQ-8B Fire Scout Test Flights from Littoral Combat Ship
Northrop Grumman has just released video of the MQ-8B Fire Scout conducting first test flights from the U.S. Navy’s littoral combat ship, USS Freedom (LCS 1) in November 2010. Source: Northrop Grumman
Northrop Grumman HART On-Demand Intelligence System Succesful Field Tests
Northrop Grumman Corporation has successfully demonstrated that its Heterogeneous Airborne Reconnaissance Team (HART) system increases warfighter situational awareness during a recent Spiral 7 DARPA field exercise conducted March 7-18, 2011, at Dugway Proving Grounds, Utah.
Phantom Eye Being Assembled at NASA Dryden
Phantom Eye being assembled at NASA Dryden, minus engines. The engines are undergoing testing at another facility. First flight is expected in early August, said Boeing.