An unmanned aircraft, built by Team Vyoma, a group of engineering students and professionals from RV College of Engineering in Bangalore, will feature in the SAE Aero Design Challenge 2012, an international aero design competition conducted by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) in collaboration with NASA and Lockheed Martin. Continue reading
Category Archives: Events
Frontex Organizes RPAS Border Surveillance Workshop
The workshop on “Remote Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) and Optionally Piloted Aircraft (OPA) potential for European border surveillance and search and rescue (SAR) operations” will take place in Sofia, Bulgaria on 18 and 19 April 2012. Continue reading
Autonomous, Roaming Swarm Creates Temporary Local Wi-Fi Network
Electronic Countermeasures @ GLOW Festival NL 2011 from liam young on Vimeo.
The Electronic Countermeasures project is essentially an autonomous, roaming Internet swarm, constructed from repurposed UAS. Continue reading
ICAO Regional UAS Seminar – Lima, Peru – 18-20 April 2012
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the Latin American Civil Aviation Commission (LACAC) are organizing a Seminar on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) for the Caribbean (CAR) and South American (SAM) Regions, which will take place at the ICAO SAM Regional and LACAC Offices in Lima, Peru, from 18 to 20 April 2012. Continue reading
Denel Dynamics Seeker 400 on Display at Defence and Security Asia 2012
The prototype of the new Denel Dynamics Seeker 400 is currently on display at the Denel Dynamics stand at Defence and Security Asia 2012, on March 5-8 in Bangkok, Thailand. Continue reading
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University to Host UAS Community Forum
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University will be hosting an Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Community Forum on Thursday, March 8, 2012, from 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm at its Prescott campus. Continue reading
Technion Students’ UAS Wins First Prize at Tel Aviv Aviation and Space Conference
An unmanned aircraft with a wingspan of 1.9 meters and weighing four kilograms – built by aeronautical and space engineering students at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology – won first place at a Tel Aviv Aviation and Space Conference. Continue reading
The Only Way to Learn to Fly is to Fly: DARPA’s Regina Dugan at TED2012
“Be nice to nerds…” – the opening line from Regina Dugan, the director of DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) at TED2012. Continue reading



