A U.S. Navy Global Hawk wandered into Canadian-controlled airspace this week off the coast of NovaScotia. It was over the ocean when it crossed into the Canadian zone about 230 kilometres southwest of Yarmouth. Continue reading
US Navy Triton Programme Advances without “Sense-and-Avoid” System
The U.S. Navy’s MQ-4C Triton unmanned maritime surveillance aircraft is progressing through its flight-test programme, but still without a “sense-and-avoid” system that would protect against collisions with other aircraft. The Naval Air Systems Command (Navair) programme office said it is taking a “layered approach” to meeting the requirement until it finds a technology solution. Continue reading
ASTM Approves Seven New Standards for sUAS
The ASTM International Committee F38 on Unmanned Aircraft Systems has recently approved seven new standards that cover all major facets of small unmanned aircraft systems operations, including design, construction, operation and maintenance requirements. Continue reading
UAS Help Map Fukushima Cleanup and Reconstruction
Drone Adventures was founded a year ago, and they’ve been busy conducting post-disaster autonomous UAS mapping missions in places like Haiti, where updated maps can be critical to aid distribution (in the short term) and infrastructure management and repair (in the long term). Continue reading
Blackburn Monoplane – Britain’s Oldest Airworthy Plane – Shuttleworth Collection
Robert Blackburn was born on the 26th March 1885 and became one of Britain’s first aircraft designers and builders. His first aeroplane to fly did so at Filey in 1910 and he then produced several designs over the next two years. The basic 1912 machine was called the Mercury or the Type D monoplane. Continue reading
Spain Issues Blanket Ban on All Commercial UAS
Spain’s State Agency for Aerial Security, the AESA, which is part of the Ministry of Industry, has issued a blanket ban on commercial UAS use everywhere in the country. Continue reading
Triathlon Organisers Issue Statement on UAS Incident
Further to the incident in which a competitor in the Endure Batavia Triathlon in Geraldton, Western Australia, was injured by a UAS, the organisers have released the following statement: Continue reading
Alabama Army Team Investigates RQ-7 Shadow Crash
A team from the U.S. Army Combat Readiness/Safety Center at Fort Rucker, Ala., is at Fort Indiantown Gap investigating last week’s RQ-7 Shadow crash in Union Township. Teams from the center conduct investigations any time there is an crash involving Army aircraft, said Pennsylvania National Guard spokesman Staff Sgt. Matt Jones. Continue reading