Northrop Grumman Fire Scout Completes Successful At-Sea Deployment
SAN DIEGO, Aug 17, 2011 The Northrop Grumman Corporation -built MQ-8B Fire Scout Vertical Takeoff Unmanned Aerial Vehicle was credited with providing critical intelligence, surveillance and...
View ArticleRockwell Collins Micro INS guides Flexrotor UAS first flight
WASHINGTON(Aug. 17, 2011)– Rockwell Collins today announced its Athena®Micro INS inertial navigation system and global positioning system (INS/GPS) guided the first flight of Aerovel’s Flexrotor...
View ArticleFuel Cell long endurance platform for EnergyOR unveiled by Robota
On first test flight, UAV flies for 10 hours powered by a hydrogen fuel cell, setting new benchmarks for small renewable energy unmanned aircraft. Aug 12, 2011 – Drummondville, Quebec. Robota LLC...
View ArticleScanEagle, Procerus Unicorn communicate over search area
WASHINGTON, Aug. 18, 2011 — Boeing announced the successful autonomous communications and operation of dissimilar unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in flight tests over the rugged terrain of eastern...
View ArticleAerial Farm Aid
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) may be flying over America’s heartland soon to help farmers increase production, improve protection and better manage their crops through the early detection of...
View ArticleHoneywell International assigned patent for anti-collision lighting systems...
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 19 — Honeywell International, Morristown, N.J., has been assigned a patent (7,999,698) developed by Richard E. Annati, Albuquerque, N.M., and David E. Ekhaguere, Albuquerque,...
View ArticleC130 and RQ 7 collision, fingers pointing at C130 crew.
Avweek has confirmed what we have heard from a couple of sources. Only the official report will tell what really happened. Somebody must have been watching this unfold on radar though and could have...
View ArticleDARPA, U.S. Army and Rockwell Collins release video of damage tolerance...
Last fall, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the U.S. Army and Rockwell Collins demonstrated Damage Tolerance Control (DTC) on the RQ-7B Shadow Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS),...
View ArticleFlying saucer makes debut at Washington show
An American start up company from Arizona continues to grow and make the right connections with an interesting circular winged platform. Chris Mc Nair from AttoPilot sent us news of a very successful...
View ArticleWright State wins UAV contract of up to $5 million
WSRI Researcher Dave Gross by Tim Gaffney The U.S. Air Force has awarded a contract of up to $5 million over five years to Wright State University for research related to unmanned aerial vehicles....
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