Texas A&M University at Qatar and Qatar’s Reconnaissance and Surveillance Center (RSC) have signed a memorandum of understanding on 16 June to enhance collaboration and explore mutual opportunities for strategic partnerships.
Trinidad Discusses Drone Regulations
Drones have posed danger to the lives of Government ministers said the Trinidad & Tobago Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), yet the technology will play such a big role in TT’s future that children should be allowed to fly them. Continue reading
Wichita State University Drone Crash Tests
Wichita State University is now conducting a series of tests to see just how much damage a drone can do.
FAA Finalizes Rules for Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Today, the Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration has finalized the first operational rules for routine commercial use of small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS or “drones”), opening pathways towards fully integrating UAS into the nation’s airspace. These new regulations work to harness new innovations safely, to spur job growth, advance critical scientific research and save lives. Continue reading
MITRE Announces Counter Drone Challenge Finalists
The MITRE Corporation has named the eight finalists who will compete in its Countering Unauthorized Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-UAS) Challenge live flight competition in August. The live flight tests will determine the winners of a $100,000 prize package. Continue reading
Inverted Wankel Engine as UAS Power Plant ?
Alexander Shkolnick is the president and co-founder of LiquidPiston, a Connecticut firm that has spent 13 years and $18 million rethinking the rotary engine that Felix Wankel created in 1960 and Mazda gave up on in 2012. On Monday, engineers yanked the 39-pound conventional engine out of a kart and installed the four-pound X Mini. Continue reading
Cornerstone Mapping Processing Thermal Imagery with SimActive
SimActive Inc., a developer of photogrammetry software, has announced the purchase of Correlator3D by Cornerstone Mapping Inc. Based in the U.S., they are primarily using the software to process large datasets of thermal imagery.
Big Potential for Drones in the Arctic
Kirt Ejesiak wasn’t very impressed with his first drone, purchased to take aerial photos of houses listed with his Property Guys real estate franchise in Iqaluit, Nunavut. But when a friend asked him to fly the drone over his roof to look for a leak, Mr. Ejesiak started thinking about other uses for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV).