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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.
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.
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
Scion Aviation has unveiled two new unmanned helicopters designed to challenge the Saab Skeldar and Schiebel S-100 in bids for US contracts.
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.
From September to the end of October, a NASA thermal- infrared scanning instrument will stand ready to support the U.S. Forest Service and the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection with real-time imagery of fire characteristics.
A Hermes 450, known as RQ-450 when operated by the Brazilian Air Force located a clandestine runway close to the border with Columbia. Continue reading
The Spanish government is considering introducing unmanned aircraft to increase their maritime border surveillance in the Strait of Gibraltar. Tests have already taken place.