ISIS (Concept: Lockheed Martin
(Bad) timing is everything in aerospace. At the height of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, airships looked to be the answer to demands for persistent, “staring-eye” surveillance. Continue reading
First JARUS Information and Dissemination Workshop
The first JARUS Information and Dissemination Workshop will take place on 6 December 2012 and will be kindly hosted by EUROCONTROL at their offices at 96 rue de la Fusée, Brussels, Belgium. Continue reading
LiquidPiston 40-BHP Rotary Engine Delivers 75% Thermal Efficiency
The internal combustion engine (ICE) has had a remarkably successful century and a half. Unfortunately, it’s notoriously inefficient, wasting anywhere from 30 to 99 percent of the energy it produces and spewing unburned fuel into the air. Continue reading
CloakBlade Stealth Octo-Rotor ‘Reaches Out’ to Enemy Ships
The US Navy Warfare Development Command’s Navy Center for Innovation recently demonstrated John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory’s Cloak Blade Micro-Copter. Continue reading
IAI Heron Demonstrates Maritime Credentials
In this video, the Heron demonstrates its maritime credentials. Continue reading
TECOM Gets $12M Contract from AAI for Portable Ground Control Stations
TECOM Industries, Inc. a Smiths Interconnect business, announced the award of a firm fixed price contract from AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems for approximately $12.0M. Continue reading
New Miniature Autopilot Solution from Instrument Control Sweden
After a long period of development, Instrument Control, Sweden, has announced that its brand new NATO STANAG 4586 compliant autopilot, EasyPilot 3.0, is now available. Continue reading
Insitu Pacific Successfully Integrates McQ Sensor Technology with ScanEagle UAS
Insitu Pacific, the Australia-based subsidiary of Insitu Inc., announced today that it has successfully completed integration between its ScanEagle Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) and the McQ iScout Unattended Ground Sensor (UGS) and OmniWatch technologies. Continue reading