Among the features that make the Insitu ScanEagle well-suited to deployment from a ship’s flight deck or a small combat outpost is its ability to land without a runway. Crews connect a taut cable to a vertical boom, then fly the little airplane so it snags the cable with a hook on its wing. Continue reading
Hindeburg Crash – Newsreel from 1937
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The Hindenburg disaster took place on Thursday, May 6, 1937, as the German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock with its mooring mast at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station, which is located adjacent to the borough of Lakehurst, New Jersey. Continue reading
QuadCopter Sparks Love Affair – Video
This charming short film from The Netherlands was a contribution by ThinkFish Media to the AR.Drone 2.0 Film Festival. Continue reading
NASA’s X48-C Blended Wing Body Prototype – New Photos
The X-48 is a Blended Wing Body aircraft, which is something of a halfway house between a flying wing and a conventional airplane (i.e. one with a distinct fuselage and wings). Continue reading
US to Establish Predator Base in Niger
The U.S. military is planning a new UAS base in Africa that would expand its surveillance of al-Qaeda fighters and other militants in northern Mali, a development that would escalate American involvement in a fast-spreading conflict. Continue reading
Simlat Provides UAS Training & Simulation Classroom for Flight School at Cochise College, Arizona
Simlat Ltd. was recently awarded a contract by Cochise College, Arizona, to provide a full UAS Training classroom Solution. Continue reading
Oregon State University Forms Consortium on UAS Sensing
Oregon State University is forming a consortium with industry, academia and government to develop a new era of unmanned aircraft systems for remote sensing, to perform tasks that range from environmental monitoring to fighting forest fires, protecting crops or aiding law enforcement. Continue reading
US Army Special Operations Command Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Division First Symposium
The United States Army Special Operations Command (USASOC) Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Division co-hosted a day-long symposium Jan. 23 with the USASOC Intelligence Directorate and United States Army Special Operations Aviation Command (USASOAC), inside the USASOC headquarters. Continue reading