Turkey’s first flying-wing, deep-strike unmanned aerial vehicle has successfully performed its maiden flight, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced on Thursday, the latest addition to the country’s famed homegrown drone fleet. Continue reading
Category Archives: Applications & Testing & Experience
India Successfully Tests Flying-Wing UAV
The DRDO Friday successfully demonstrated the flight trial of Autonomous Flying Wing Technology Demonstrator, an indigenous high-speed flying wing UAV from the Aeronautical Test Range (ATR), Chitradurga in Karnataka. Continue reading
NATS Tests Air Traffic Control Simulations for eVTOL Operations
A new generation of greener aviation has taken a leap forward following the UK’s first major air traffic control simulations for Advanced Air Mobility (AAM), demonstrating how eVTOL – electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft – or flying taxis – could one day be safely integrated with conventional air traffic. Continue reading
Reliable Robotics Flies Large Cargo Aircraft with No One On Board
Reliable Robotics, a supplier of aircraft automation systems, announced a significant milestone in its work to bring advanced safety-enhancing technologies to market in the United States. Last month’s successful flight of a Cessna 208B Caravan with no one on board was a first for aviation. Continue reading
Droniq and Eviden Test Automated Drone Use at Home Airport
Paderborn/Lippstadt Airport underlined its positioning as an innovation airport when testing automated drone use. The companies Droniq and Eviden have now carried out a test operation at the airport that simulated the automated drone inspection of a car fire, including the search for people using a thermal imaging camera. Continue reading
Airbus Completes Auto’Mate Autonomous Aerial Refuelling Tests
First Take Off for Mojave UAV from a UK Royal Navy Aircraft Carrier
The largest uncrewed aircraft ever launched from a Royal Navy aircraft carrier has paved the way for the next generation of UK naval air power. Codenamed ‘Mojave’, the specially-modified aircraft – operated remotely by a ‘pilot’ at a computer terminal – has taken-off from and safely landed back on board HMS Prince of Wales in a unique trial off the East Coast of the USA. Continue reading
Rotor Technologies Performs First Uncrewed Autonomous Helicopter Test Campaign
Rotor Technologies, Inc. (Rotor), a developer of autonomous vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft, has completed the first autonomous helicopter flight campaign of a full-scale civilian helicopter. Continue reading