sUAS News

by Rajnish Singh Violeta Bulc is worried about Europe’s aviation industry. The European transport Commissioner can see major turbulence ahead; “The aviation sector is affected by poor profitability and faces major challenges in an ever-changing global environment.” The fear is that, with the industry’s competitiveness under threat from external carriers, the EU’s ‘direct connectivity’ is…

by Alta Devices will introduce the new “Solar for UAV Index” which is designed to assess solar technologies for fixed wing UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) applications. This new index accounts for many of the issues that a designer must consider. Included in the new measurement system are power to weight; properties of the solar cell…

by Two Bayraktar Unmanned Aerial Systems composed of four ground control stations and six planes will be provided to Turkey’s General Directorate of Security, the Undersecretariat for Defense Industries (SSM) announced on Monday. The SSM said that an agreement with Baykar group was signed on October 15 on the purchase of Bayraktar tactical UAV systems…

by This course is designed for anyone, 16 years and older, that wants to fly small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS) for fun or as a new career after the FAA opens the skies to commercial use. Students learn to fly, are taught about the different types of flight systems and, most importantly, acquire insight into…

by Borrowing heavily on other projects Googles Project X team seem to have discovered transitions are hard and stable hover with so much vertical area to weather cock also difficult. The tail sitter has gone. Anybody care to bet this is running a KK2 board and OpenAero VTOL firmware? Probably a Piccolo in there but we…

by New Task Force to Develop Recommendations by November 20 WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx and FAA Administrator Michael Huerta today announced the creation of a task force to develop recommendations for a registration process for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). The task force will be composed of 25 to 30 diverse representatives from…

by Causing quite a stir, if you are in the USA and in the unmanned world its perhaps worth watching. We suspect its to announce a working group to handle the registration of UA at the point of sale. Not really sure how that will work as many are shipped in from China direct. Jonathan…

by Remember Skypan, the company facing the largest civil penalty the FAA has proposed against a UAS operator for endangering the safety airspace.. This is the response posted on their website. It can’t be the full legal one. There is no such thing as privately owned airspace, correct me if I’m wrong @suasnews. http://skypanintl.com/about_new.html A. SkyPan…

by BY: ARIE EGOZI Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has teamed with South Korea’s Hankuk Carbon to offer a Front Engine Panther (FE Panther) version of its 67kg-class (148lb) vertical take-off and landing unmanned air vehicle. To be showcased at the Seoul International Aerospace and Defence Exhibition from 20-25 October, the FE Panther is powered by…

by Aerialtronics, the international manufacturer of high performance multirotor aerial platforms, are pleased to announce the appointment of two new distributor partners in the UK. Under the partnership, the companies will develop a UK distribution network for Aerialtronics’ flagship Altura Zenith unmanned aircraft system and their product line. MRL are safety, risk and resilience specialists…

by We’re excited to provide a much-anticipated update on our production process and the launch of HEXO+. We realize many of you have been anxiously awaiting this update. Thank you for your patience. In advance of sharing our most recent news, we needed to wait for a range of answers from our team in order…

by The folks that bought smart phone controlled powered paper aeroplanes to the mass market, PowerUp are Kickstarting with Parrot an FPV version. It boasts WiFi live streaming with a range of over 300 ft using a MIMO Antenna supporting 2.5 and 5Ghz Ultra wide-angle 360° rotating camera to capture and stream forward-facing, rear-view and…

by “Intertelecom” goes on in using innovations in his work. In cooperation with Drone.UA enterprise, the operator became the first one who adopted drones for inspection of the base stations and telecommunication antennas. Previously, visual inspection and testing of technical condition of the objects required human resources. Using the drones will allow upscalling to the…

by Allison Sylte and Raquel Villanueva, KUSA CASTLE ROCK – A nearly 30-year-old horse that has been missing since Thursday was found Sunday morning. The drone searching for the horse Saturday used infrared cameras early Sunday morning and spotted the horse just after 7:30 a.m. He also goes by the nickname ‘Hou.’ “It’s short for ‘I…

by [Oklahoma City,] we have a problem. Oklahoma City is where aircraft registration gets processed. The aircraft registration process still involves carbon copy forms, which must be filled out perfectly and sent in for an aircraft to be registered. They are extremely, I mean extremely, picky on registration based upon my experience. (If you need help…

by To be honest, who wouldn’t want a challenging job at a promising, young enterprise in a growth industry? Make career at Ascending Technologies and support the UAS technology leader in fields of development, production and worldwide distribution of UAS drones. Apply for one of the open jobs @ Ascending Technologies today! Since 2002 the…

by Clay Dillow Burglars have stolen more than $100,000 in merchandise from North America’s largest drone retailer. In the early morning hours of Sept. 28, five hoodie-clad individuals approached a Studio City, Calif., storefront. Using power tools and blowtorches, the group quickly smashed a reinforced window and cut its way through a steel…

by DARPA solicits proposals to enable manned and unmanned air systems to rapidly, securely, and automatically share information across diverse waveforms and networks despite adversary jamming. Modern airborne warfare is becoming increasingly complex, with manned and unmanned systems having to rapidly share information in a volatile environment where adversaries use advanced, commercially available electronic systems…

by BY: JAMES DREW Lockheed Martin has displayed an evolved version of its ‘Terminator’ loitering unmanned air vehicle, which it is offering for the US Army’s long-running terminator Lethal Miniature Aerial Munition System (LMAMS) programme. Company officials declined to discuss the loitering munition – which was on show in model form at the Association of…

by MICHAEL BURKE RACINE — The owner-operator of a runaway drone that crashed at Batten International Airport last weekend owned up to the mishap Thursday. Sunday morning a pilot found a broken, four-propeller Cheeson CX-20 drone on a taxiway near the center of Batten Airport, as The Journal Times reported on Wednesday. Airport Manager…

by Cinema Libre Studio has acquired Rotor DR1, a post-apocalyptic sci-fi feature film developed and produced by a community of drone enthusiasts and will be releasing it on DVD, Blu-Ray and Video on Demand as of October 20, 2015. Executive produced and directed by Chad Kapper, Rotor DR1 grew out of the Flite Test community…

by The National Association of Tower Erectors (NATE) announced today the formal establishment of an Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Committee. The newly minted committee will be tasked with monitoring the trends and regulatory environment associated with rapidly evolving UAS technologies and making recommendations to NATE members and the wireless infrastructure community on best practices when…

by The 2nd Annual New York City Drone Film Festival will be held from March 4th through March 6th 2016. The three-day event will feature a dynamic slate of interactive panel discussions, guest speakers, screenings of nominated films and the annual awards ceremony. The festival will return to the Directors Guild of America Theater for…

by Air traffic controllers at NATS managed the first flight by an unmanned aircraft in controlled and unsegregated airspace, in what is being hailed as a UK first and major milestone in the development of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) for civil and commercial use. The first flight took place on Wednesday 30 September, with Thales’s…

by By Matt Coyle Drone pilots have been warned by police after an historic monument was damaged. One of the remote aircrafts crashed into the Wallace Monument in Stirling and left a window damaged. Police have now issued a warning to the public about the use of drones and have reminded people to use them…

by Joseph Serna Flying a drone too high, too close to people or at an airport in Los Angeles could soon land you six months in jail and a hefty fine. In a unanimous vote Wednesday, the L.A. City Council approved an ordinance that mirrors the Federal Aviation Administration’s civilian drone regulations and makes it…

by The Natural History Film Unit (NHFU), based in Botswana, relied on the AERIGON UAV to capture aerial images of predators and prey for BBC Natural World’s The Return of the Giant Killers – Africa’s Lion Kings. The result is ground-breaking 4K footage of lions as they track their buffalo prey in the wild and…

by If in a civilian/commercial UAS application the aircraft is the most visible part, it is not always well understood how critical its design can be for the intended missions of the system. The R^2 based on the rhomboid wing concept started as the answer for a very specific requirement. After the first prototypes…

by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA‑ASI), a leading manufacturer of Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA), radars, and electro-optic and related mission solutions, today announced that it has been awarded a full-rate production contract by the U.S. Army for 19 Improved Gray Eagle (IGE) Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) to be delivered by September 2018. “We are…

by By Jason Blevins The Denver Post A California start-up with $10 million in venture capital funding has partnered with Copper Mountain and Winter Park ski areas to offer drone video services this season. Cape Productions on Tuesday announced nine resorts — including Copper and Winter Park — as partners in the company’s plan to…

by SALINA — Kansas State University Salina and industry partner Westar Energy are advancing unmanned aircraft systems, or UAS, education, training and research with the creation of a new flight facility. The UAS Pavilion, constructed on K-State Salina’s campus, is one of the largest enclosed unmanned flight facilities in the nation. Measuring 300-feet-long by 200-feet-wide…

by UAS Drone Corp., a developer of unmanned aerial systems for the law enforcement and first responder market (the “Company”), announced that Grant A. Begley, a drone technology development and policy leader, has been appointed to the Company’s Board of Directors. During Mr. Begley’s long career in the industry, he served as Corporate Senior Vice…

by Chris Biggers Predator clones. China’s not the only one that’s built copies of one of the most widely known UAVs. Of course, not many stack up well against the Abe Karemoriginal. That’s certainly the case with the Anka, Turkey’s version. While Turkey’s been pushing ahead in its indigenous drone program, the elusive strike…

by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA‑ASI), a leading manufacturer of Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) systems, radars, and electro-optic and related mission systems solutions, today announced the successful flight of a company-owned Predator® B integrated with a certified Rohde & Schwarz R&S MR6000A air traffic control radio. The flight lasted 48 minutes, launching from the company’s…

by AV8 have created a cost effective course with small UAS commercial operators in mind. “We have all written the requirements in our operations manuals and created the checklists required. We’ve even heard about it on courses during our qualification periods” This course aims to deliver you into a final ‘real world’ scenario based on…

by Frode Engelsen stood with nervous anticipation as the countdown to the launch of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) drew closer to zero. Watching a UAV launch wasn’t new to him. Yet this launch, on a sparkling day in a field in British Columbia, marked the first of two steps towards flying the first joined…

by Look out for Patrick, he will on the show. Premiering on the Smithsonian Channel on Sunday, November 1st at 8pm and will repeat at 11pm. Here is Smithsonian’s home page for the series: http://www.smithsonianchannel.com/sc/web/series/1003487/air-warriors Drones: they watch, analyze, even kill without ever risking a pilot’s life. These unmanned aerial vehicles can be flown from anywhere on…

by TASS/. Scientists of the Omsk State Technical University have created an unmanned aircraft for the work in the extreme conditions of the Arctic region, head of the university’s Experimental Design Bureau Small Unmanned Vehicles Pavel Pogarsky told TASS on Tuesday. “This is the third generation of UAVs, which can operate in temperatures ranging from…

by by Connie Loizos Robot maker iRobot has long had two major lines of businesses: its famous disc-shaped vacuum cleaning robot called the Roomba; and another robot that, well, disposes of bombs. Co-founder Helen Greiner says iRobot — now a publicly traded company currently valued at $940 million — “wouldn’t have been able to have…

by Montreal, Canada, October 13th, 2015 – SimActive Inc., a world-leading developer of photogrammetry software, is pleased to announce the purchase of Correlator3D™ licenses by Ordnance Survey, the UK government agency responsible for mapping. Ordnance Survey had a requirement for software featuring DSM and DTM solutions. “We needed a fast, precise and reliable photogrammetry…

by by Brad Dicken ELYRIA — Matt Mishak now has a license to drone for fun and profit. The Elyria city prosecutor and businessman has received an exemption from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration that allows him to send his drones soaring into the sky for commercial purposes. The exemption for Mishak’s company, Drone Guys…

by Vancouver airport officials are warning the public about using drones in restricted airspace after one was spotted flying near YVR’s north runway late Sunday afternoon. Officers searched for the person flying it, but were unable to identify who was responsible. “We work with our partners at Transportation Canada and at YVR constantly and take…

by By Keely Lockhart Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service have put their Air Unit to the test to help tackle a large blaze in the city centre on Monday night. The Air Unit is a drone fitted with an infrared camera which the firefighters deployed to help them tackle the huge blaze. The blaze…

by Ocean Optics has sponsored a team of volcanologists on a mission to study volcanoes in the South American Andes, providing Flame miniature spectrometers and accessories. The‘Trail by Fire’ project, funded by a grant fromLand Rover and the Royal Geographical Society, will attempt to quantify the total amount of volatile chemical elements released by volcanoes…

by BY: BETH STEVENSON The Japanese government is to begin enforcing new regulations surrounding the use of unmanned air vehicles in national airspace in December, with its action having been prompted by a threat to its prime minister last April. A DJI Phantom UAV carrying radiation landed on the rooftop of Shinzo Abe’s residence, triggering…

by Tad Sooter Fred Ford’s latest surveying tool looks a bit like a miniature stealth bomber. Standing once recent morning on a soccer field in Silverdale, Ford held the slender black drone by its wings and gave the machine three sharp jerks. The drone’s propeller whirred to life, emitting a high-pitched whine. Ford took a…

by By ANDY PASZTOR A Virginia contractor is waging a difficult campaign to provide the Pentagon a different type of surveillance drone, featuring propellers on the wings and unmatched endurance. Aurora Flight Sciences Corp., of Manassas, Va., has spent five years working on the lumbering Orion—with two engines producing a normal cruising speed below 90 miles…

by By Jason Blevins The Denver Post If camera-toting drones follow the ubiquitous trend of skiers strapped with point-of-view cameras, could we see a deluge of aerial quadcopters at resorts across the high country? Not if ski resorts can stop it. Resorts across the U.S. are hedging against snowy vistas clogged by drones by adopting…

by BY JENNIFER HILLER San Antonio Express-News At a South Texas ranch, a drone mounted with cameras flew above and around a flare stack that burned natural gas. Live, high-definition images were transmitted back to the ground, where company officials watched video of the flare stack as it was operating, asking that the drone move this…

by Gavin McLoughlin and Paul O’Donoghue The proposal to the local authority calls for R&D, technology development, and flight testing to take place at the site. The news emerges ahead of the Drones Data X conference which will be held in Mayo next month. The event is organised by Philip McNamara, USA managing director of…