A New Mexico State University psychology professor is studying unmanned aircraft and the pilots who operate them in order to create guidelines for the Federal Aviation Administration and other agencies. Continue reading
Category Archives: Regulatory Matters
FAA Center of Excellence for General Aviation Research
The Federal Aviation Administration is competitively establishing a new Center of Excellence for General Aviation Research in 2012. The FAA will begin the competitive process by hosting a Public Meeting on November 17-18, 2011 in the Atlantic City, NJ area. Continue reading
Italian UAS Community Initiative
On 13 October 2011 Aermatica organized the start-up meeting of the Italian Small Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) Working group, at ARMAERO (General Directorate of Aeronautical Armaments, Italian Ministry of Defense) in Rome, Italy. Continue reading
Thales Alenia Space to Study UAS Command and Control By Satellite for ESA
Thales Alenia Space has won a contract from the European Space Agency to lead a nine-month study regarding satellite communications solutions for Unmanned Aircraft Systems. Continue reading
NASA Dryden Awards Contracts Worth $12.6M for Unmanned Aircraft Systems In The National Airspace System Research
NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center recently awarded contracts to six research and development firms to assist the center in meeting the goals of the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration in the National Airspace System, or UAS in the NAS, project. Continue reading
NASA Project on Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration in the National Airspace System
NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, California, is leading a project designed to help integrate unmanned air vehicles into the National Airspace. Continue reading
European Commission UAS Panel’s 3rd Workshop – UAS Safety
The third workshop in a five-part series of European Commission (EC) UAS Panel Workshops run jointly by the European Commission’s DG Mobility & Transport (MOVE) and DG Enterprise (ENTR) on the topic of insertion of UAS into European controlled airspace, will take place at Eurocontrol headquarters, 96 rue de la Fusée 96, Brussels, Belgium on 19 October 2011. Continue reading
North Dakota Airspace Integration Team Includes University UAS Programme Director
The programme director for University of North Dakota’s Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems has been named to the newly launched North Dakota Airspace Integration Team. Continue reading