The egg white UAS lifted off from its ground station at a hospital construction site here, hovered for an instant, then zoomed off, sounding like a five-pound bee as it buzzed around the cranes towering over the six-acre project. Capable of carrying a high-resolution camera and other sensors, the quadcopter, a helicopter with four rotors that resembles a spaceship from a 1950s science fiction movie, was flying in a demonstration of its ability to serve a potentially lucrative new market for UAS: the energy industry. Continue reading
UAS Mapping Trees in Finland
Mapping the trees in Finland’s forests sounds like a Herculean task – there are 30 billion of them, making it Europe’s most densely wooded nation. But for one start-up that’s just the warm-up act to its plan to use laser-equipped drones to shake up industry at large. From package deliveries to nuclear power plant examinations, the Helsinki-based Sharper Shape can see limitless possibilities for its system. Continue reading
Eurofighter Typhoon D-Day Salute
A Eurofighter Typhoon adorned with commemorative D-Day invasion stripes appearance at the IWM D-Day anniversary Air Show. Continue reading
Swarming UAS are the Future
Small unmanned aircraft operating in swarms can be a boon in post-disaster or search-and-rescue operations, but the current state of technology poses some problems, said Vijay Kumar, the UPS Foundation Professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering and Applied Science. Continue reading
RQ-4 Global Hawk Landing at Misawa Air Base
The first-ever RQ-4 Global Hawk to touch down in Japan arrived at Misawa Air Base May 24. Continue reading
Japanese Dance Company Choreographs Performance with QuadCopters
Today, in “Drone-Augmented Amazingness,” Japanese dance troupe Eleven Play have teamed up with artist, hacker, and all-around iconoclast Daito Manabe to create a performance that brings the term, “rise of the machines” to literal new heights. Continue reading
Fury Bridges the Gap Between Tactical and Strategic
Lockheed Martin has posted this video of the Fury UAS which brings strategic capabilities to the tactical warfighter as a long endurance, survivable unmanned aircraft capable of supporting any ISR and IEW mission. Continue reading
FAA Draft Solicitation for UAS Center of Excellence
The FAA has issued a draft solicitation a Center of Excellence for UAS which it plans to competitively select within the next year. The formal solicitation is due to be issued in August.