iMaterialize, a Belgium based company, which aims to make high quality 3D printing accessible to as many people as possible, launched a contest back in February, along with Autodesk and Flexbot, to see who could come up with the most creative 3D printed UAS designs. They have now announced the winners of that contest. Continue reading
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First Flights in UK Airspace For Global Hawk
A United States Air Force Global Hawk Remotely Piloted Aircraft has for the first time flown through UK airspace as part of a NATO trial known as Unified Vision 2014. The Global Hawk aircraft flew from an Air Base in the Mediterranean and across several European countries, including the UK, to-and-from the trial area in Norway. Continue reading
Luxury Hotel Delivers Champagne by QuadCopter
A luxury hotel is taking Champagne delivery to a whole new level with a soaring bottle service by quadcopter.The Mansion at Casa Madrona in California unleashed their state-of-the-art octo-copter earlier this month to deliver the residents precious bubbly. The service is specifically for guests staying in the hotel’s most luxurious suite – where nights start at $10,000. Continue reading
US General Dempsey – Not Drones, Nor UAS… They’re Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPAs)
US Army General Martin E. Dempsey bristles when he hears someone use the word drone. “You will never hear me use the word ‘drone,’ and you’ll never hear me use the term ‘unmanned aerial systems,’” the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said today. “Because they are not. They are remotely piloted aircraft.”
US Sends UAS and 80 Airmen to Help Nigerian Search
The US Defense Department’s addition of an unmanned aerial vehicle and 80 Air Force troops to U.S. efforts supporting Nigeria’s search for over 200 missing schoolgirls has turned the mission into an air operation, Army Colonel Steve Warren, director of Pentagon Press Operations, said. Continue reading
Iran Displays Cloned RQ-170 Sentinel
Iran claims to have successfully copied the US RQ-170 Sentinel it captured in December 2011, with state television broadcasting – and even the country’s supreme leader tweeting – images of the replicated aircraft. Continue reading
Poor Maintenance Grounds Nigeria’s Israeli UAS
Aerostar – Photo: Aeronautics Defense Systems
The Aerostar unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) acquired by the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) in 2006 have reportedly been grounded due to a lack of maintenance, limiting surveillance operations against Boko Haram militants. Meanwhile the US has deployed a Predator team to Chad to search for kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls. Continue reading
Stop Calling Them Drones – They’re Just RC Helicopters with a Camera
I don’t know when remote control helicopters became drones, but I think its way past time we stop implying that a fancy RC helicopter with a camera strapped to it is some sort of autonomous Terminator robot.OK sure, in the beginning I know that somebody though that “drone” sounded a lot cooler than “model airplane”. Continue reading