The growing market for unmanned aircraft has created 150 job openings at Northrop Grumman’s San Diego area plants, where the company develops the Global Hawk, Fire Scout and the X-47B. Continue reading
American Military UAS Clock Up 2.7 M Flight Hours
According to statistics provided by the US Army, Navy and Air Force, remotely piloted aircraft have logged around 2.7 million flight hours during the current era of drone warfare. More than 87 percent of the time, these aircraft have been involved in combat. Continue reading
US Navy Demonstrates UAS Common Control System
The US Navy completed a demonstration for its unmanned aircraft Common Control System (CCS) Oct. 26 at Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division in China Lake, California. Continue reading
EADS Ready to Trade Eurofighter for Talarion
The Financial Times Deutschland reported on Wednesday that EADS is set to offer to waive any rights to damages from cuts to Eurofighter jet orders if some countries buy Talarion UAS and sign maintenance deals. Continue reading
World’s First Manned Flight with an Electric Multicopter
At the end of October 2011, Thomas Senkel of e-volo made the first manned flight with an e-powered multicopter at an airstrip in the southwest of Germany. Continue reading
ANKA Completes 5th Test Flight
Turkish Aerospace Industries’ (TAI) has announced that its Anka prototype completed its fifth flight on 22 October, “marking the beginning of the envelope expansion process”. Continue reading
UAS Text Book from K-State and New Mexico State Universities
Kurt Barnhart, executive director of the Applied Aviation Research Center and head of the aviation department, and Eric Shappee, associate professor of aviation, at Kansas State University Salina, have helped write and edit one of the first collegiate-level textbooks on unmanned aircraft systems, “Introduction to Unmanned Aircraft Systems.” Continue reading
Solar Panels Power Glider Controls for Indefinite Flight
Marine Corps Captains Derek Snyder and Dino Cooper, who recently graduated from the Systems Engineering course at Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, have designed an unmanned aircraft that is effectively a glider that can fly indefinitely. Continue reading