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The AirMap team has also been busy with several exciting drone demonstration projects throughout the United States. Continue reading
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Category Archives: Applications & Testing & Experience
Boeing’s Cargo Air Vehicle – First Outdoor Flight
Boeing has successfully completed the first outdoor flight tests of the cargo air vehicle (CAV). In a safe and controlled environment, the electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) successfully took off, hovered, transitioned to forward flight and then landed safely. Continue reading
First MQ-25A Stingray Flight Planned Late 2019
Later this year, Boeing’s prototype for the Navy’s MQ-25A Stingray unmanned aerial tanker will make its first flight from an Illinois airport. When the Stingray will start operating from U.S. carriers is less clear. Continue reading
Textron Flight Tests Block 3 RQ-7 Shadow
Textron is flight testing a new Block 3 version of its AAI-developed RQ-7 Shadow UAS, which the U.S. Army has been using for 20 years and, according to Textron, plans to use for at least 10 more. Continue reading
NASA Tests Drone Swarms
One of four drones, nicknamed a Hive, hovers at 1200 feet over Deer Park, Virginia.
More than 100 drones rained down in a spinning swarm over Beaver Dam Airpark, Virginia, March 19, 2019, as NASA researchers tested new autonomous data collectors. The test flight consisted of four larger unmanned aerial vehicles, nicknamed Hives, which are loaded pre-flight with more than 20 smaller drones. Continue reading
Iris Automation Announces Casia Turnkey Collision-Avoidance Solution
Iris Automation, an artificial intelligence and safety avionics company, has announced the launch of Casia – the first commercially available computer vision detect-and-avoid solution to enable Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) operations for autonomous vehicles. Continue reading
TigerShark-XP Receives FAA Experimental Certification
Navmar Applied Sciences Corporation (NASC) received a Special Airworthiness Certification in the Experimental Category from the FAA for two of its NASC TigerShark-XP aircraft, the N1740X and N1750X. The TigerShark-XP is a variant of the US Navy RQ-23A Group III Unmanned Aircraft System. The RQ-23A saw service in both Iraq and Afghanistan with over 100,000 flight hours. Continue reading
University of Maryland Used UAV to Deliver Kidney for Transplant
In a first-ever advancement in human medicine and aviation technology, a University of Maryland unmanned aircraft has delivered a donor kidney to surgeons at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) in Baltimore for successful transplantation into a patient with kidney failure. Continue reading