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On 23 & 24 May 2012, the kick-off meeting of the new EUROCAE Working Group 93 on Light RPAS took place at EUROCONTROL headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. The meeting was attended by 56 regulatory and industry representatives, as well as representative from the European Commission Directorate General Enterprise & Industry. Continue reading
On the first day of UVS International’s RPAS 2012 Conference in Paris on June 5 – 7, Dag Paulsen, of ProxDynamics, Norway will present his paper entitled “Nano RPAS: A New Reality”. Continue reading
A disagreement between Israel Aerospace Industries and the Israeli Air Force over the cause of a Heron TP (“Eitan”) unmanned aircraft crash on 29 January has resulted in the type remaining grounded.
University of Granada researchers have developed a 3D imaging system that scans 3D models of historical buildings using data obtained from an unmanned aircraft. Continue reading
NATO is preparing to acquire five unmanned aircraft. With the support of resources on the ground they will allow the Alliance to develop its own ground defence capability. Continue reading
Australia’s Orbital has announced that it has been contracted to supply heavy fuel engines for use in AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems’ (AAI) Aerosonde Small Unmanned Aircraft System (SUAS). Continue reading
AeroVironment is to employ its small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to demonstrate aerial communications capabilities for the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Continue reading
USSOCOM’s evaluation of the A160 Hummingbird UAS has been stalled since one of the platforms crashed in Belize in September 2010, said Army Col. Douglas Rombough, the program executive officer for rotary wing at USSOCOM.