The China-developed new energy battery-powered demonstration unmanned aerial vehicle, known as LQ-H, has conducted a successful maiden flight. Continue reading
Category Archives: Aircraft Propulsion & Energy
First Flight for Drone-sized Electric Aircraft
Case Western Reserve University professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering Vikas Prakash—along with state government and private partners—launched an otherwise unremarkable, single-propeller fiberglass airplane into the skies at Springfield-Beckley Municipal Airport and waited to see how long it could fly before running out of juice. Continue reading
Intelligent Energy New Product Provides up to 1.6kW
The commercial UAV industry is set to benefit from the latest addition to Intelligent Energy’s product range. The fuel cell engineering company’s new Power Path Module (PPM) enables customers to double the power output from its UAV Fuel Cell Power Modules (FCPMs). Continue reading
FlytBase & Skysense Partner to Bring Automated Drone-in-a-Box Solution
FlytBase, Inc. and Skysense, Inc. have just announced a partnership to bring fully-automated, low-cost drone-in-a-box solution to the market and help customers scale their commercial drone deployments. Continue reading
Kratos Acquires Florida Turbine Technologies
Kratos Mako Unmanned Tactical Aerial Platform (UTAP-22)
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. announced that it has acquired an 80.1% interest in Florida Turbine Technologies, Inc. and FTT Core, LLC (collectively “FTT”), a leading technology company and innovation leader in advanced turbine engines, for $60 million, consisting of $33 million in cash and $27 million in Kratos common stock. Kratos has an option to acquire the remaining 19.9% of FTT at a future date. Continue reading
Northwest UAV’s NW-44 Multi-Fuel Engine Achieves 10,000 Combat Flight Hours
Just over a year ago Northwest UAV announced that the NW-44 Multi-Fuel Engine had reached the noteworthy milestone of logging over 1,000 combat flight hours. Today, that same engine line has flown over 10,000 flight hours and has logged over 1,000 flights. Continue reading
Sky Power Picks Ersa Soldering Tools
The German UAS-engine manufacturer Sky Power is refining its production, and in this context has put Ersa soldering tools into operation. These are used in the in-house electronics workshop. Continue reading
Fuel Cell Powered UAV Peforms 10 hour plus Flight
South Korean liquid hydrogen specialist MetaVista has demonstrated a record breaking 10 hour and 50 minute multi-copter test flight using an Intelligent Energy Fuel Cell Power Module. Continue reading