A propeller malfunction on an MQ-1 Predator remotely piloted aircraft, coupled with operator error, led to the platform’s crash last October in Afghanistan, announced Air Combat Command officials. Continue reading
View from the Cockpit of Mustang Formation Flight
This in-cockpit video was filmed at the 2009 Flying Legends Airshow at Duxford and features “The Horsemen” Mustang display team flying 3 North American P51 Mustangs. Continue reading
Rockwell Collins Tactical Targeting Network Technology in X-47B UCAS Deck Trials
Rockwell Collins Tactical Targeting Network Technology (TTNT) was used by Northrop Grumman Corporation and the U.S. Navy as they successfully completed a series of deck handling trials of the X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System aboard the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75). Continue reading
Delft Dynamics Selected by Dutch Defence for Development of Flying Robots
Delft Dynamics‘ project ASIMOV, “Autonomous Rapid Deployable Multicopter for Overview and Security”, has been selected by the Dutch Ministry of Defence as best project proposal of a total of 44 submitted proposals by Dutch SMEs under the SBIR tender “Safe ground based actions and military operations in urban areas”. This research and development project will be executed in a period of two years. Continue reading
Cloud Cap Technology Launches Piccolo Nano Autopilot for Small UAS
UTC Aerospace Systems has announced the introduction of the Cloud Cap Technology Piccolo Nano UAS autopilot, the smallest addition to Piccolo family of flight management systems. Continue reading
Integrating RPAS into Civil Airspace
On 12 March 2013, a free workshop entitled “Integrating RPAS into Civil Airspace”, that had been organized by UVS International, took place at ATC Global 2013 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The workshop room was nearly filled to capacity and a good number of lively panel discussions took place. Continue reading
New York Times Predicts Boom in Commercial Use of UAS
The New York Times just posted this report on the development Unmanned Aircraft Systems for commercial purposes. Continue reading
Flying-Cam UAS Built by Additive Manufacturing
FLYING-CAM, a developer of rotary wing Light Unmanned Aircraft Systems, has partnered with Modena, Italy based CRP Group, a leader in laser sintering technology and well-known for their Additive Manufacturing materials called Windform, to construct a Special Aerial Response Automatic Helicopter: SARAH. Continue reading