Sky Elements performed a Christmas drone show using 1,000 drones above the tallest Christmas tree in America. Continue reading
Charges Against Iranian and Chinese Nationals for Acquiring Components for Drones for Iran Revealed
The Department of Justice has unsealed an indictment charging two men – Iranian National Hossein Hatefi Ardakani (“Ardakani”) and Chinese National Gary Lam – with crimes related to the procurement of U.S.-manufactured dual-use microelectronics for Iran. Continue reading
ANRA Technologies and NAVOS Air Team to Develop Vertiports for Urban Air Mobility
ANRA Technologies, a global supplier of uncrewed vehicle mission management and operations solutions, and NAVOS Air, an Instrument Flight Procedure Products and Services company, have announced a collaboration to incorporate flightpath procedures into ANRA’s Vertiport Management Service for Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) aircraft operations for Urban Air Mobility. Continue reading
NASA Flies Drones Autonomously for Air Taxi Research
Researchers at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia recently flew multiple drones beyond visual line of sight with no visual observer. The drones successfully flew around obstacles and each other during takeoff, along a planned route, and upon landing, all autonomously without a pilot controlling the flight. Continue reading
Fairey Fulmar – the Flying Battleship Killer
The Fairey Fulmar aircraft looked right and felt right. Comfortable and pleasant to fly, Captain Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown remembered about the type: (QUOTE) “there was little with which the most fastidious of pilot’s could find fault in its handling.” Continue reading
Canada Orders the MQ-9B SkyGuardian
The Government of Canada has signed a contract to purchase a fleet of MQ-9B SkyGuardian Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) from General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.. The order includes the associated Certified Ground Control Stations and support equipment from GA-ASI. Continue reading
Northrop Grumman Gets $72M US Air Force RQ-4 Global Hawk Repair Services Contract
Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, San Diego, California, has been awarded a $72,318,801 cost-plus-fixed-fee and cost reimbursable, indefinite-delivery requirements modification to previously awarded contract FA8539-21-D-0001 to exercise Option Year 3 for repair services. Continue reading
Qaher-313 was Iran’s Stealth Fighter Joke – or Not?
Iran has shown its great capability to reverse engineer U.S. military drones, and its unmanned aerial systems (UAS) program has made great leaps forward. In 2011, a Lockheed Martin RQ-170 “Sentinel” was intercepted and then copied to create a new drone with similar capabilities. Continue reading