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
UK and France to Unveil $2 Billion Drone Project
U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Francois Hollande will unveil a 1.5 billion-pound ($2.1 billion) cooperative drone project when the two leaders meet in Amiens today. Continue reading
NASA Works on Quieter Supersonic Passenger Jet
The return of supersonic passenger air travel is one step closer to reality with NASA‘s award of a contract for the preliminary design of a “low boom” flight demonstration aircraft. This is the first in a series of ‘X-planes’ in NASA’s New Aviation Horizons initiative, introduced in the agency’s Fiscal Year 2017 budget.
US Air Force Adds New RPA Bases at Home & Abroad
The US Air Force will add two new locations for remotely piloted aircraft operations within the continental United States, and look to build new overseas locations as it builds its RPA force. General Hawk Carlisle, commander of Air Combat Command, said ACC will add the two locations “as rapidly as possible,” though he could not provide a specific timeline.