Animal Liberation Australia has acquired a UAS and plans to fly over farms and film animal cruelty. Continue reading
Category Archives: Non-Military & Commercial UAS
NASA Flies Dragon Eye Unmanned Aircraft Into Volcanic Plume
NASA Earth science researchers last month traveled to Turrialba Volcano, near San Jose, Costa Rica, to fly an AeroVironment Dragon Eye unmanned aircraft system (UAS) — a small electric aircraft equipped with cameras and sensors — into the volcano’s sulfur dioxide plume and over its summit crater, to study Turrialba’s chemical environment. Continue reading
Ventura County Sheriff Announces Plans to Evaluate Use of UAS in Search & Rescue
The Ventura County Sheriff’s Office in California has applied for a Certificate of Authorization (COA) through the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to allow training flights of an Unmanned Aircraft System. Continue reading
NASA Perseus B – Historic Photo
In this historical photo from the U.S. space agency, the long, slender wing of the Perseus B remotely piloted research aircraft can be clearly seen in this photo, taken on the ramp of NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center in September 1999. Continue reading
IDETEC Unmanned Systems Delivers its First iMK-8 Multirotor Solution with 10 Spectral Bands
IDETEC Unmanned Systems has delivered its first iMK-8 multirotor unmanned aircraft system equipped with 3 payload cameras capable to obtain up to 10 spectral bands simultaneously. The end customer, a university in Chile, will use the system for a wide range of agriculture research helping the industry to define and improve performance and quality models in crops. Continue reading
French National Post Office and Parrot Team to Test Newspaper Delivery by QuadRotor
Microdrones Unveils the New md4-3000
The new Microdrone md4-3000 was just presented to the public at the IDEX and CeBIT trade shows. More payload and long range without any compromise in terms of dynamics – this along with increased quality in the manufacturing process. Continue reading
Multidisciplinary Team Studies Severe Storms with sUAS
A team of educators are conducting in situ sensing in local storms and air masses with small unmanned aircraft systems (SUAS), explains Dr. Brian Argrow, Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Research and Engineering Center for Unmanned Vehicles, University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado, during the Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Summit in Norman, Oklahoma. Continue reading