Category Archives: Events

FAA Center of Excellence for General Aviation Research

The Federal Aviation Administration is competitively establishing a new Center of Excellence for General Aviation Research in 2012. The FAA will begin the competitive process by hosting a Public Meeting on November 17-18, 2011 in the Atlantic City, NJ area. Continue reading →

DARPA UAVForge Competition – Contestant Number 6

Circino Flight Systems submitted a 3-year old video of its ‘Sentry’ Olecopter which tries to satisfy a number of problems with UAV’s – combine VTOL performance with high speed in forward flight. Continue reading →

DARPA UAVForge Competition – Contestant Number 5

Nothing very original about team Dhaksha’s Hexarotor entry from MIT ANNA University in India, though it does have the merit of being stable. Continue reading →

Turin Hosts ‘Future of Unmanned Vehicles’ Conference October 27

‘The Future of Unmanned Vehicles & Systems-Aerospace’ International Conference will discuss technological challenges, flight solutions and space exploration related to Unmanned Aircraft and Unmanned Vehicles. Continue reading →

Geospatial Intelligence Conference in San Antonio

The Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio was host this week to the intelligence industry’s annual trade conference known as the GEOINT 2011 Symposium, shorthand for “Geospatial Intelligence.” Continue reading →

DARPA UAV Forge Challenge – Contestant Number 4

Last in the current the review of contestants in the DARPA UAVForge Challenge – a contest to use crowd-sourcing to build small UAS through an exchange of ideas and design practices – this video presents the Pogo 2100UAV. Continue reading →

DARPA UAV Forge Challenge – Contestant Number 3

Continuing the review of contestants in the DARPA UAVForge Challenge – a contest to use crowd-sourcing to build small UAS through an exchange of ideas and design practices – this video presents the Quadrocopter Microdrone. Continue reading →