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The FAA is working to approve limited commercial operations by unmanned aircraft in specific applications, such as crop spraying, that pose a low risk to those on the ground. Four industries have approached the agency about using language in the 2012 FAA reauthorisation act to get an exemption to the ban on civil UAS, says Jim Williams, UAS integration office manager. Continue reading
Insitu Pacific, the Australia-based subsidiary of Insitu Inc., announced it recently conducted a successful demonstration for the New South Wales Rural Fire Service (NSW RFS) using the ScanEagle unmanned aircraft system (UAS). Continue reading
Northrop Grumman Corp. said that it is collaborating with the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University to study airworthiness requirements for operating unmanned aircraft systems in Australia. Continue reading
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan frequently mentions the Anka, Turkey’s first indigenous UAS, in speeches.“We have reached [a technological level] that we can produce unmanned aircraft,” he proudly told Parliament on April 29.
Trinidad & Tobago’s Cabinet has approved the purchase of six helicopters and four Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for the National Operations Centre (NOC) that would cost about $600 million, reported National Security Minister Gary Griffith. Continue reading
The LH Aviation LH-10 light multirole aircraft, bought for surveillance use by Benin and the United Arab Emirates, will be the first aircraft to be manufactured in Morocco when a new factory is established in the North African country.
Divers with the Houston Police Department recovered the missing Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office drone last week after it crashed and sank into Lake Conroe April 25. Continue reading
NEANY has expanded its partnership agreement with Visual Intelligence to deploy Visual Intelligence’s iOne M+ 108 megapixel metric mapping system in NEANY’s flagship unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), the Arrow. NEANY will utilize the iOne M+ system for large area high-resolution geospatial imaging for both military and commercial applications.