Schiebel’s CAMCOPTER S-100 Unmanned Air System (UAS) continues its successful shipboard trials when demonstrating its outstanding capabilities to the South African Navy from 20 to 23 October 2015 at False Bay, Western Cape, South Africa. Continue reading
Walmart Wants to Test Drone Deliveries Too
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. recently joined the trend of using drones for delivering products. The move of the world’s largest retailer came amid the growing race with online competitors such as Amazon.com Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google.
Harvard Scientists Develop Aerial-Aquatic RoboBee
Engineers have been trying to design functional aerial-aquatic vehicles for decades with little success. The biggest challenge is conflicting design requirements: aerial vehicles require large airfoils like wings or sails to generate lift while underwater vehicles need to minimize surface area to reduce drag. Continue reading
US Navy Funds Amphibious Drone Research
The Office of Naval Research has awarded Rutgers University a grant to develop a drone – equally adept at flying through the air and navigating underwater – that could speed search-and-rescue operations, monitor the spread of oil spills and even help the Navy rapidly defuse threats from underwater mines. Continue reading
DARPA Seeks Advanced Airborne Networking Capabilities for Hostile Environments
DARPA solicits proposals to enable manned and unmanned air systems to rapidly, securely, and automatically share information across diverse waveforms and networks despite adversary jamming. Continue reading
Global Hawk Radar Software Refined
Surveillance radar experts at Northrop Grumman Corp. are refining system software in an advanced radar system aboard the Global Hawk Block 40 long-range unmanned aerial system (UAS) that tracks track slow-moving ground vehicles and low-flying cruise missiles.
World’s Largest Model Aviation Association Launches Public Awareness Campaign
The Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA) and its community of more than 187,000 members across the globe are uniting today to welcome and encourage the next generation of model aviation enthusiasts. In a public awareness campaign titled Discover Flight, AMA will show the world why it’s never been a more important, or exciting, time to take to the skies. Continue reading
South Africa Grants First Commercial Drone Licence
South Africa’s Civil Aviation Authority (SACAA) has granted approval to the Rocketmine Division of Public Display Technologies (PDT) for the commercial operation of Remote Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) – drones – for several key South African business sectors, including mining, agriculture and construction. Continue reading