Silent Falcon UAS Technologies Granted Airworthiness Statement by NASA
Silent Falcon UAS Technologies has been granted an Airworthiness Statement by the Airworthiness & Flight Safety Review Board, part of the Ames Research Center division of NASA.This Statement allows the Silent Falcon UAS (Unmanned Aircraft System) to participate in the NASA UTM (Unmanned ...
Amazon Wins Patent For Voice-controlled UAV Assistant
Amazon is working on adding an Alexa-like digital brain that can control drones small enough to fit in someone’s pocket and capable of locating lost items, cars and people, among many other things.A patent awarded to Amazon on Tuesday shows the company is thinking about a lot more than ...
Aurora Demonstrates ALIAS Robotic System on Cessna Aircraft
Aurora Flight Sciences demonstrated automated flight capabilities as part of the Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System (ALIAS) program. The ALIAS robotic system flew a Cessna Caravan through basic maneuvers under the supervision of a pilot. Aurora’s ALIAS technology has now been successfully ...
$15,000 Drone Competition Announced For UTM Convention 2016
The UTM Convention 2016 and HiddenGenius.com have partnered to launch a technology competition that demonstrates drone sense and avoid technologies (SAA).The enormous growth in the number of small UAS (Unmanned Aircraft Systems) has highlighted the tremendous opportunities in this ...
U.S. Navy Selects Leonardo Osprey Radar for MQ-8C Fire Scout UAS
Leonardo-Finmeccanica has announced that its Osprey active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar has been picked to serve as look-out on-board the US Navy’s newly-upgraded unmanned helicopter, the MQ-8C Fire Scout. The helicopter will be launched from the decks of US naval combat vessels to ...