Kansas State University is leading an international, multimillion-dollar project that is looking at unmanned aerial systems as a quick and efficient method to detect pest insects and diseases in food crops before outbreaks happen.
US Bombs ISIS Drone in Iraq
US warplanes have bombed a small drone used by Islamic State extremists in Iraq, marking the first time American-led forces had targeted an unmanned aircraft flown by the jihadists, officials said Wednesday.
First Images of Predator Downed Over Syria
Charred wreckage emerges of the American UAS shot down by Syrian military near Assad’s stronghold. The burned metal and mangled electronics in these images could belong to the first American aircraft to go down in Syria since the U.S. began airstrikes on ISIS inside the country. Continue reading
Amazon Gets FAA Approval to Test Drones
Amazon.com Inc. has been awarded an experimental airworthiness certificate to use drones, according to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration. Under the contract, Amazon’s logistics unit will be allowed to use drones for research, development and crew training. Continue reading
No Charges for Man Who Crashed Drone on White House Lawn
An intelligence agency employee whose drone crashed on the White House lawn earlier this year won’t face criminal charges, the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington announced.
Man Charged for Flying Drones Over UK Landmarks
A man has been charged with 17 offences related to allegedly flying a drone over landmarks including the Houses of Parliament, the Queen Victoria memorial outside Buckingham Palace and several football stadiums.
The Blackbird Had a Drone Sidekick
In the late 1960s and early ’70s, the CIA embarked on a programme to build an unmanned version of America’s most iconic spy plane—one that could reach deep into the heart of Chinese territory to pry out the nuclear secrets at supersonic speeds and at little risk to human pilots.
Could a Jet Engine Survive Sucking Up a Drone?
George Morse’s company, Failure Analysis Service Technology, based in Prescott, Ariz., specializes in the analysis of aviation mishaps, foreign-object damage in particular. Morse himself has done more than 4000 engine investigations, most the result of ingestion of nuts or bolts or other runway detritus rather than birds.