A senior Iranian military commander claims Iran’s stealth surveillance aircraft photograph US aircraft carriers and other warships cruising the waters off Iran. Continue reading
FAA Test Site First Webinar Report
On Wednesday morning, I sat in on the first of two FAA Webinars on Test Site Selection. Click here to download the “formal” presentation that the FAA reps (Les Smith, Aviation Safety Standards & one Dennis Roberts I think, but I missed his title) spoke from. Continue reading
Hawaii Harbour’s Surveillance UAS Still Grounded
The State of Hawaii purchased an unmanned surveillance aircraft last year to patrol the skies over Honolulu Harbour but the aircraft can’t be flown because of heavy air traffic in the area. Continue reading
CAE and Aeronautics Begin Miskam UAS Test Flights
CAE and Aeronautics have announced that the first series of flights of the Miskam unmanned aircraft system (UAS) have been conducted successfully over the past several weeks at the UAS Centre of Excellence (Centre d’excellence des drones) located at Alma airport in Quebec, Canada. Continue reading
Australian Hoverbike Ready for Take Off
An Australian named Chris Malloy has built a Hoverbike from motorbike parts, which he claims can fly at 173mph at an altitude of 3,000 metres. Continue reading
Wright State Consortium Gets $3.5M Loan to Build UAS Operator Research Centre
A consortium of the Wright State Research Institute and area companies will create 50 full-time jobs with an average wage of about $90,000 a year to work with Wright-Patterson Air Force Base to study human performance. Continue reading
US Army Slow to Deploy Cargo UAS
The US Marine Corps made history on December 17, 2011, by flying a cargo UAS in a war zone. Controllers on the ground flew a K-MAX unmanned helicopter from Camp Dwyer, Afghanistan, to Camp Payne in Helmand province, ferrying 3,500 pounds of supplies to fellow Marines. Continue reading
Georgia Unveils Domestic UAS
The Georgian Ministry of Defence has produced a video [below] of President Mikheil Saakashvili unveiling Georgia’s first domestically produced unmanned aircraft. Continue reading