This video is of the Festo Corporation’s BionicOpter, which has “technically mastered the highly complex flight characteristics of the dragonfly” according to the company. The ultralight ornithopter “can fly in …
On Saturday, June 16, 2012, at 5:48 AM Pacific Daylight Time (12:48 Zulu), the X-37B program’s unmanned Orbital Test Vehicle Two (OTV-2) set down onto the three-mile runway at Vandenberg …
Just two weeks after the Navy announced the temporary suspension of flight operations for its MQ-8B Fire Scout unmanned helicopters, the service has tapped Northrop Grumman to upgrade the systems …
In the face of the most draconian U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) budget cuts in at least a generation, affordability has become a new watchword, perhaps the new watchword. While …
On Dec. 17, 2011, the Marine Corps 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing used a Kaman K-MAX unmanned helicopter to make the first unmanned helicopter cargo delivery on a battlefield. The K-MAX …
A multi-service general officer panel appearing at one industry conference in late 2011 was faced with an audience question of when the coming fiscal environment might force the services to …
An armed, pilotless aircraft designed to defend the United States may seem a 21st century description of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). However, the concept was actually introduced in a 1915 …
If all goes as planned, the Global Hawk remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) will replace the legendary U-2 “Dragon Lady” as the nation’s premier strategic reconnaissance platform. It was supposed to …
This week’s Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) North America 2011 (August 16 – 19, Washington D.C. Convention Center) is providing multiple venues for both government and industry to …
At the start of Predator: The Remote-Control Air War over Iraq and Afghanistan: A Pilot’s Story, Air Force Lt. Col. Matt J. Martin writes of flying at ten thousand feet …
