Aircraft

Some cool what is cloud based software images: US Air Force General Atomics MQ-1 Predator Unmaned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Image by james_gordon_los_angeles A USAF Predator UAV, Balad Air Base, Iraq, prior to mission. The General Atomics MQ-1 Predator is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) used primarily by the United States Air Force (USAF) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Initially conceived in the early 1990s for reconnaissance and forward observation roles, the Predator carries cameras and...Read Full Story

Last week two of the serious magazines that I read more for information than crass pleasure had articles on drones.  Those are the unmanned aircraft currently used to kill targets in the Middle East who have, or may want to play terrorist.   One of the articles told of the use of drones to catch some nasty people in Idaho who barricaded themselves on their independent-state farm. Now today I receive an email that tells me the following:  Aerial survey company Bluesky has launched a fast...Read Full Story

In the late 19th century, zeppelins were thought of as the flying machines of the future. Though time and a well-publicized explosion may have quelled those ambitious predictions, blimps and drones are once again poised for their moment in the spotlight, this time as the next wave of domestic surveillance platforms employed by the U.S. government. Congress has already ordered the Federal Aviation Administration to integrate unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into American airspace by 2015. In...Read Full Story

December 11th, 2011 is a day which ushered in a new era in America, it is a day when America saw changes the likes of which we haven’t seen since George W Bush signed the PATRIOT Act, and this change wasn’t for the better.   Many Americans probably don’t know what happened on that day, but this was the first time an unmanned drone was used to hunt down an American citizen on American soil and it happened in North Dakota.   At that time I admitted that this seemed like a legitimate use of an...Read Full Story

By Jessica Wehrman, Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — The Dayton region’s chances of becoming a center for research and testing of unmanned aircraft got a boost on Thursday after a key Senate committee passed a defense bill that also would prevent cuts at the Springfield Air National Guard Base. The Senate Armed Services Committee passed a bill that included a measure aimed at increasing coordination between federal agencies for research in unmanned aerial vehicles. The Dayton-Springfield area...Read Full Story

Israel's ground forces have temporarily grounded their Elbit Systems Skylark 1 ("Sky Rider") unmanned air vehicles after a series of mid-air inflations involving the type's airbag landing system.Israel Defense Forces confirms that operations of the mini-unmanned aerial vehicle have been halted until further notice, pending the completion of work to determine what caused its airbag to be deployed in flight several times during recent weeks. Installed to cushion the impact of landing, the...Read Full Story

BOSH Precision Agriculture (BOSH) has named Mr. Young Kim as its General Manager. Kim brings to BOSH a 20-year background in business development, aviation technology, and unmanned systems. He assumed his new position on April 16. Kim’s experience identifying opportunities for unmanned systems within civil markets was a driving force behind his appointment. Chief Executive Officer Robert Fitzgerald selected Kim to spearhead BOSH’s entry into the precision agriculture sector of the commercial...Read Full Story

Zero in on optics sales: your customers have the guns. Now sell them the optics they need!: An article from: Shooting Industry optics sale – . optics sale This digital document is an article from Shooting Industry, published by Publishers’ Development Corporation on June 1, 2010. The length of the article is 795 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any...Read Full Story

AeroVironment today announced it will employ its small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to demonstrate aerial communications capabilities for the Federal Communications Commission’s Deployable Aerial Communications Architecture (DACA) Notice of Inquiry (NOI) proceeding. The DACA NOI is examining the ability to re-establish communications rapidly using aerial platform technology following a natural or man-made disaster that renders existing communications networks unusable. AeroVironment will...Read Full Story

PERTH, Australia, May 24, 2012 Orbital is pleased to announce that it has been contracted to supply heavy fuel engines for use in AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems’ (AAI) Aerosonde® Small Unmanned Aircraft System (SUAS). AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems, an operating unit of Textron Systems, a Textron Inc. company, recently won significant military contracts from the U.S. Navy and Special Operations Command to provide SUAS fee-for-service operations utilising the newest configuration of its...Read Full Story