Sat, Apr 27, 2024 Texas A&M Takes Home the Gold Despite the Inclement Weather The Vertical Flight Society Selected the Winners of this year’s Design-Build-Vertical Flight Student Competition, sending the team from Texas A&M home with the gold. The competition assesses student’s ability to draft, develop, and construct a VTOL …
Read More »Türkiye’s new combat drone completes endurance flight test
Türkiye’s unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV), Bayraktar TB3, tailored for the country’s newly commissioned aircraft carrier, successfully completed a long-duration flight test on Wednesday, remaining airborne for 32 hours, its developer said. According to the statement from Baykar, after its first flight on Oct. 27, Bayraktar TB3 UCAV underwent consecutive …
Read More »Overair completes assembly of full-scale Butterfly prototype
Overair, an emerging global leader in advanced air mobility (AAM) and developer of all-electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, announced it completed assembly of the first full-scale prototype of its Butterfly eVTOL aircraft. This marks a pivotal milestone for the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) following the validation of their full-scale propulsion …
Read More »Zipline completes first BVLOS flight in Utah
Zipline is one step closer to achieving its mission of building the first autonomous delivery system that serves all people equally. At 1pm on Friday, November 17, 2023, we completed our first U.S. BVLOS flight in Salt Lake City, Utah. The ability to fly without visual observers on the ground …
Read More »AeroVironment’s JUMP 20 Group 3 completes multi-domain exerc…
AeroVironment, Inc. recently participated in the Arcane Thunder 23 (AT23) operational exercise in Europe, demonstrating the JUMP 20 Group 3 unmanned aircraft system’s (UAS) ability to support multi-domain operations. AT23 is part of the U.S. Army’s Project Convergence – Europe campaign to evaluate the progress of the service’s modernization efforts. The intent …
Read More »New Turkish armed drone completes its 5th flight test
The testing process of Bayraktar TB3, Türkiye’s new unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) capable of being deployed on aircraft carriers, continues at full speed, with manufacturer Baykar recently announcing the drone has completed its fifth flight and flew with the landing gear retracted for the first time. During its fifth …
Read More »Russian long-range transport drone completes first stage of …
VLADIVOSTOK, Nov. 11 (Xinhua) — The Russian long-range transport drone TRAMP (transport aviation multifunctional platform) has completed the first stage of flight tests, Russia’s RIA Novosti reported on Saturday. TRAMP, capable of carrying up to 250 kg of cargo over a distance of more than 600 km, was undergoing ground …
Read More »ACUASI completes first drone flight from Nenana to Fairbanks
Alaska’s leading public uncrewed aircraft program made another significant advance Friday when a drone flew from the Nenana airport and landed at Fairbanks International Airport. The flight, conducted by a University of Alaska Fairbanks research center, was the first in Alaska of a drone departing one airport and arriving at …
Read More »Department of Homeland Security completes Sentrycs C-UAS tes…
Sentrycs, the technology leader in integrated counter-UAS technology, recently participated in the DHS (Department of Homeland Security) anti-swarm tests. During a series of rigorous tests last month in Oklahoma, Sentrycs successfully demonstrated its ability to simultaneously detect and track multiple drones, operating at diverse ranges, altitudes, and speeds. It completed multiple …
Read More »SoftBank completes flight test of sub-scale model of HAPS UA…
SoftBank Corp. (“SoftBank”) announced that it collected the data necessary for flight verification and aircraft design as part of its development of a next-generation uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) designed for High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS) by testing a sub-scale model. A low altitude flight test for the sub-scale model, a …
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