Empire Holdings, Inc., has announced that one of its operating units, Empire Unmanned, LLC, has acquired Advanced Aviation Solutions (ADAVSO) of Star, Idaho. Empire Holdings is the primary owner of Empire Unmanned, LLC, and also owns 100 percent of Empire Airlines, Inc.
Northrop Grumman Awarded Fire Scout Task Order
Northrop Grumman Corp., Aerospace Systems, San Diego, California, is being awarded $7,280,560 for cost-plus-fixed-fee task order 1269 against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N00019-15-G-0026) in support of the MQ-8 Fire Scout unmanned aircraft systems. Continue reading
North Dakota SU Gets Hermes 450 for Ag Research
North Dakota State’s unmanned aerial vehicle program has been and continues to do ground-breaking research since it began in 2014. The program, led through the NDSU extension service of the Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering department, has conducted research at the Carrington and Williston research centers. It now will be conducting research out of the Hillsboro airport using a newly acquired Hermes 450. Continue reading
DJI Phantom 4 with Sense & Avoid, Object Tracking
DJI’s latest Phantom comes with a camera that can lock onto a person or animal and follow them, avoid objects in its path and fly back to its base on its own. Continue reading
SensorTape Unrolls New Sensor Deployment Possibilities
MIT Media Labs has made sensor deployment as easy as unraveling a strip of tape from your toolkit. They’ve developed SensorTape, an unroll-able, deployable network of interconnected IMU and proximity sensors packaged in a familiar form factor of a roll of masking tape. Continue reading
Drone Racing Pushing Small, Fast UAS Technology
Air racing was a powerful driver of both technology and public awareness in the early days of aviation. Motor racing has been the proving ground for advances in the automotive industry. Will the emergence of drone racing do the same for unmanned aircraft? Continue reading
B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber
Northrop Grumman just posted this rarely seen aerial footage of the world’s only long range stealth bomber. Continue reading
P-51D Mustang at UK Airshow
Listen to the awesome whistling sound of the Packard Merlin engine as this veteran fighter aircraft (‘Marinell’ of the Hardwick Warbirds collection) swoops by at the 2014 Little Gransden Air and Car Show, held at Little Gransden, England. Continue reading