The US Army expects to issue a “request for information” imminently for a vertical-takeoff and landing (VTOL) unmanned aircraft, Army officials said recently. Continue reading
Raytheon Delivers First Seavue Expanded Mission Capability Radars to U.S. Customs & Border Protection for Guardian
Raytheon Company has delivered the first of three SeaVue expanded mission capability radars to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection in the record time of just six months.
US Air Force Announces MQ-1/9 Ground Station Basing Criteria
Air Force officials have released the criteria for basing of the regular Air Force MQ-1/9 remote split operations ground control stations.
Skycar Gets FAA Experimental Airworthiness Certificate – Thunderbirds Are Go !
The world imagined in a 1960 Science-Fiction TV Series took a step closer to reality with the announcment by Moller International, Inc., the developer of the Rotapower line of rotary engines and the Aerobot line of Unmanned Aircraft Systems, that the Federal Aviation Administration has accepted its application for Experimental Airworthiness Certification of the M400 Skycar.
Revolutionary Form of ‘Airborne Auto-Motion’ from Austria
US Research Team Microaviary Flight Lab
Microdrone at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
At Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, two miles from the cow pasture where the Wright Brothers learned to fly the first airplanes, military researchers are at work on another revolution in the air: shrinking unmanned drones, the kind that fire missiles into Pakistan and spy on insurgents in Afghanistan, to the size of insects and birds.
Northrop Grumman Pitches MQ-4C Broad Area Maritime Surveillance UAS to Indian Navy
Northrop Grumman is pitching its MQ-4C Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS) unmanned aircraft system to the Indian navy.
Boeing A160 Hummingbird Begins Final Proving Phase
A decade-long investment in the unmanned, long-endurance A160 Hummingbird helicopter is set to enter a final proving phase at the end of the month. Boeing plans to deliver the first of 20 new production aircraft assembled in Mesa, Arizona by the end of June to a flight-test facility in Victorville, California.