UAS manufacturers and users need to be patient while the Federal Aviation Administration goes through the steps to get them safely and properly into the air, an aviation official told industry watchers on Tuesday at a meeting organised by the AIAA in Ventura County, California. Continue reading
US Marine Corps’ F-35B Conducts First Vertical Landing
On March 21, 2013, the Marine Corps’ first operational F-35B performed its first Short Take Off, Vertical Landing (STOVL) operations at MCAS Yuma, Arizona. Continue reading
“Feedback Control and the Coming Machine Revolution”
In this 23-minute video, Professor Raffaello D’Andrea from ETH Zurich at ZURICH.MINDS presents: “Feedback Control and the Coming Machine Revolution” — an amazing display of the future capabilities of machines using flying robots. Continue reading
Airware Offers Complete OS for Commercial UAS
Airware, from Newport Beach, California, aims to give commercial companies an easy-to-use development platform that will get their purpose-built UAS up and flying in no time. Airware’s platform comprises both on-board hardware and software, according to founder Jonathan Downey. Continue reading
Microdrones Unveils the New md4-3000
The new Microdrone md4-3000 was just presented to the public at the IDEX and CeBIT trade shows. More payload and long range without any compromise in terms of dynamics – this along with increased quality in the manufacturing process. Continue reading
Cassidian’s Mini-UAS on Show at LIMA
Cassidian’s DVF 2000 unmanned aircraft system will be on show at the 26-30 March Langkawi International Maritime & Aerospace exhibition. Continue reading
Multidisciplinary Team Studies Severe Storms with sUAS
A team of educators are conducting in situ sensing in local storms and air masses with small unmanned aircraft systems (SUAS), explains Dr. Brian Argrow, Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Research and Engineering Center for Unmanned Vehicles, University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado, during the Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Summit in Norman, Oklahoma. Continue reading
Northrop Grumman Gets $433M US Air Force Global Hawk Logistics Contract
Northrop Grumman Corp., Aerospace Systems, San Diego, California is being awarded a $433,518,021 (estimated) cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for contractor logistics support for the RQ-4 Global Hawk fielded weapon system. Continue reading