All articles by John Croft – Page 28
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AUVSI: Health monitoring for Shadow
Rockwell Collins has demonstrated a real-time condition-based monitoring (CBM) system for the Shadow unmanned air vehicle. The CBM application, implemented...
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AUVSI: Live fire, bombing in a hurry at Oklahoma UAV airport
When talking unmanned air vehicles (UAVs), Oklahoma is known as the "Sooner" state for a different reason: Sooner access to a test and training range. The...
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AUVSI: Tadiran to demonstrate digital link
Israel-based Tadirand Spectralink early next year will demonstrate a digital version of its analogue tactical video and data link (TVDL) system in the US. The...
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AUVSI: UAV surveillance to increase as troops decrease
The US Army says the operational tempo for unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) in Iraq will likely increase as US combat units leave the country this year. "I...
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AUVSI: Army to test Boeing A160s for ISR
US Army officials say they will purchase a handful of Boeing A160T Hummingbird unmanned rotorcraft "within the next couple of years" to experiment with intelligence,...
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AUVSI: Honeywell hawks T-Hawk while Army mulls future
Honeywell is demonstrating the hover-and-stare virtues of its T-Hawk micro air vehicle to a wide variety of potential customers as the US Army Brigade Combat...
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AUVSI: Challenges grow along with the market
A slate of new initiatives are underway to help accelerate the already strong growth of the unmanned systems industry while addressing long term challenges....
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AUVSI: Goodrich reveals small, low-power infrared camera
Goodrich has developed a very small, lightweight and low-power shortwave infrared (SWIR) camera for unmanned vehicles. Weighing less than 128 grams) in a...
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AUVSI: Army gets FAA qualified nod for sense-and-avoid at El Mirage
The US Army has received from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) a "formal approval" of a safety analysis of a ground-based sense-and-avoid (GBSAA)...
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AUVSI: Mercury expands surveillance horizons
Within the next year, a military operator will expand its wide-area unmanned air system (UAS) surveillance capabilities thanks to new low density servers...
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AUVSI: Harris excels at data relay duty
Harris is developing a suite of new tools to better integrate unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) into the battle space. A new communication relay payload...
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AUVSI: Damage no deterrent to Rockwell Collins control system
Rockwell Collins is preparing to begin flying its damage-tolerant flight control algorithms onboard an operational unmanned air vehicle (UAV) following the...
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AUVSI: Hypertronic connectors are all the hype
Massachusetts-based Hypertronics (booth 2634) is trumpeting the benefits of its patented hyperboloid technology for aerospace connectors, a process that...
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AUVSI: Rockwell Collins claims STUAS flight control prize
Rockwell Collins has revealed that it is to be the flight control system provider to Boeing/Insitu for the US Navy's small tactical unmanned air system (STUAS)...
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Honeywell readies T-Hawk incremental and leap upgrades
Honeywell's ducted fan micro air vehicle is being upgraded as operators get used to flying it and expand its applications
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OSHKOSH: Garmin gives proactive push with stability and protection system
Garmin this year plans to begin offering a G1000 integrated avionics retrofit package for the King Air 200 with the option for an electronic stability and protection system (ESP) to boost safety for hand-flying operations.
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OSHKOSH: Flight Design floats
Flight Design CEO Matthias Betsch says his light sport aircraft (LSA) company has seen a “significant” uptick in interest over the past six months
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OSHKOSH: DHS launches “force multiplier” for GA security
The US Department of Homeland Security has expanded its “If you see something, say something” effort to include general aviation.
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Barbs and bluster as engine makers take aim
As expected, the marketing and rhetoric surrounding the favoured dual-spool turbofan engine for the re-engined and next generation single-aisle commercial...
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