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Model Aircraft with Enthusiast Photo: Rich Beauchesne
As the FAA Reauthorization and Reform Act, HR 658, makes its way through the US House of Representatives, it is provoking concern amongst model aircraft enthusiasts who fear that government regulators can’t make the difference between model aircraft and unmanned aircraft systems.
The U.S. Army will use a General Atomics’ MQ-1C Gray Eagle this spring to flight-test a new system of multiple sensors that can be controlled by ground troops or aircraft crews. The Triclops system adds a sensor under each wing to the fuselage sensor carried by UAS.
Sanswire Corp., based at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, announced that it has unveiled a new lighter-than-air UAS, the “Argus One” following the Company’s recent filing of a provisional patent application. The airship is designed for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) applications for the US military and other governmental agencies. It is apparently “Newly Designed and Constructed and Ready to Fly” …
Mantis by Indra
Indra of Spain will be showing the Mantis, the company’s UAS which is being used by Spanish forces in Afghanistan, next month at the Latin American Aerospace and Defence show in Brazil.
Aviation Capital Enterprises, Inc. of Canada has entered into an exclusive contractual agreement with Lockheed Martin to design, develop, build, flight test and Federal Aviation Administration certify a family of hybrid airship. Based on Lockheed Martin’s P-791, a fully functional manned flight demonstrator, the commercial 20 ton variant is called SkyTug.
UVS International has been invited to be an overseas partner of the AVIC Cup – International UAV Innovation Grand Prix which is being organised by the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) and the Chinese Society of Aeronautics & Astronautics (CSAA) at the China Aviation Museum in Beijing, in celebration of the 60th anniversary of China’s aviation industry, on Sept 23 – 25, 2011.
The U.S. Army is testing prototypes of a new high-tech synchronization engine at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala., which can combine video feeds and sensor data from multiple Unmanned Aircraft Systems on a single Ground Control Station.