Author Archives: Peter van Blyenburgh

Access to Internationally Registered UAS/RPAS-related Patents – A New Service for the International RPAS Community

www.uas-patents.org is now online. The purpose of this web site, which has been developed by Blyenburgh & Co, France, is to supply information on patents concerning unmanned aircraft systems (UAS)/remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS) that are registered with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, and to make these patents and certain relevant search features, accessible to the global UAS/RPAS community, as well as to other possibly interested parties. Continue reading →

PD-100 Black Hornet vs Quadrotor Helicopter – Comparing Two Nano RPAS Airframe configurations

When Prox Dynamics, Norway started the development of the PD-100 Black Hornet helicopter it performed a series of trade studies on different aircraft configurations: traditional single main/tail rotor (as the PD-100), coaxial rotors (such as the ProxFlyer), and quadrotors (commonly used in micro VTOL aircraft). Continue reading →