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
Category Archives: Non-Military & Commercial UAS
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
The Unmanned Farmer Gets a Bird’s Eye View of his Land
“It’s a simple economic equation. The biggest potential for Unmanned Aircraft Systems is aerial images and data acquisition. You can take a simple UAS and rewire imagery for a farmer’s field for cents on the dollar compared to using traditional aircraft. That’s the holy grail of aerodynamics,” said Rory Paul, CEO of Volt Aerial Robotics, a St. Louis-based company. Continue reading
Canada’s Air Force Considers UAS for Maritime and Arctic patrols
Canada’s Air Force remains committed to getting a squadron of UAS to keep watch over vast tracts of the country’s coastlines and Arctic regions, be deployed on humanitarian missions, and even carry weapons in war zones, according to the Head of the Air Force. Continue reading
Journalism School Teaching Reporters How to Fly J-Bots
The emergence of UAS journalism is expected to become such a mainstay of the media industry in the next few years that journalism students at the University of Missouri Journalism School, in Columbia, Mo., are now taking courses how to use UAS to report stories. Continue reading