An interesting article in Government Technology magazine identified 5 Emerging Technologies that could soon be introduced to the Government Market – one of these is unmanned aircraft…
Category Archives: Non-Military & Commercial UAS
Rainbow Services Offers Customised UAS Pipeline Surveillance System
Serial entrepreneur Hans-Christian Stuber left SwissCopter AG at the end of 2010 to set up a new business at the beginning of 2011, Rainbow Services, one of the first European consultants in the field of Unmanned Aircraft Systems applications.
ShadowHawk Approved by Homeland Security for Use in the United States
The Sheriff’s Office of Montgomery County, Texas was recently awarded a grant by the Department of Homeland Security for a squadron of ShadowHawks.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police Tests Draganflyer to Replace Helicopters
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The Royal Canadian Mounted Police is testing a Draganflyer to hover over crash sites and crime scenes to take photos or beam video back to officers on the ground. The remote-controlled unmanned aircraft should help crash analysts get better, faster images to reconstruct what happened.
Green X to Demonstrate Robird Bird Strike Control at EC UAS Panel Workshop at Eurocontrol in September
The Green X Robird will be demonstrated during the upcoming European Commission UAS Panel Workshop at Eurocontrol in Brussels, Belgium on 13-14 September 2011. Robirds have been developed to closely resemble birds of prey and precisely imitate their flight profile, and thereby be an effective tool to decrease the risks of bird strike for aviation.
Global Hawk Provided Infrared Images of Damaged Fukushima Nuclear Plant
An RQ-4 Global Hawk takes off in October 2010 from Andersen Air Force Base, Guam - Photo: US Air Force
When the Japanese government began to fear a nuclear disaster after the March earthquake and tsunami, the US Air Force sent a Global Hawk based in Guam to help. Continue reading
Two New Unmanned Helicopters from Scion Aviation
Scion Aviation has unveiled two new unmanned helicopters designed to challenge the Saab Skeldar and Schiebel S-100 in bids for US contracts.
US Geological Survey to Use Unmanned Flights To Monitor River Erosion On Indian Reservation
The US Geological Survey will use unmanned aircraft flights to monitor river bank erosion on the Lower Brule reservation on the west bank of the Missouri River in central South Dakota in the United States.