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IDEX closed yesterday, with the organisers publishing final figures showing a record attendance with more than 60,000 visitors, 1,060 exhibiting companies from 53 countries and 150 official delegations participating in a total event space of 124,000 m².
Rockwell Collins announced at IDEX that its Athena family of flight control and navigation systems recently exceeded 1 million flight hours on several UAS performing surveillance operations primarily in the Middle East.
Goodrich Corporation will be displaying the Embla VTOL UAS at next week’s Avalon 2011 International Airshow at Geelong, Victoria in Australia. Continue reading
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems announced at IDEX that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the International Golden Group as part of the United Arab Emirates’ desire to generate premier ISR capability.
Abu Dhabi Autonomous Systems Investments Company (ADASI) and L-3 Communications WESCAM have announced the first flight of a CAMCOPTER® S-100 UAS with the WESCAM MX-10 EO/IR payload installed in the United Arab Emirates. After brief installation and integration activities by the ADASI team, the MX-10 completed three proving flights at ADASI’s test range in the UAE.
MicroPilot has combined three of its premier MP2128g autopilots into the first commercially available triple‐redundancy unmanned aerial vehicle autopilot. The MP21283X is now available.
FLIR Systems, Inc. has reported strong demand for the Cobalt, Star SAFIRE and TALON classes of stabilized multi-sensor airborne systems for integration on UAS across the world. Continue reading
AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems announced that it has completed a fee-for-service operation on behalf of the U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Dahlgren Division. NSWC Dahlgren has been chartered to conduct UAS flights in conjunction with tests of various types of ground radars and capture and analyze those results.