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Horizon Energy Systems of Singapore has produced an ultra-light fuel cell power system that has led to a new flight duration breakthrough for civilian unmanned aircraft systems. As part of a cooperation between Singapore and Israel, the programme has enabled the start of commercialisation of a first hydrogen fuel cell powered, long endurance civilian UA system able to fly for up to 10 hours at a time, able to cover a much wider area and lowering operational cost for end-users. Continue reading
ARCA, a Romanian developer of space vehicles, has announced that it is developing a high performance Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS). The aircraft is named Air Strato and is part of a larger UAS family that will carry out various missions for ARCA and its partners. Continue reading
UAV Factory has released an EFI engine upgrade for the Penguin B platform. The upgrade includes the addition of a temperature control system for the cylinder head, a silent muffler, a new fuel injector map as well as a new air intake assembly. The upgrade extends the operational limits of the engine, reduces fuel consumption and improves reliability of the system. Continue reading
Firefighters tackled a blaze which broke out at UAV Engines Ltd in Shenstone, near Birmingahm in England, on Monday. Two crews from Lichfield and one from Aldridge in the West Midlands attended the incident on Lynn Lane. Continue reading
Danish company, Valhalla Drone Solutions, a group of seven engineers from the University of Southern Denmark in Odense has developed a prototype Lego Mindstorms robot that automatically switches a quadrotor’s battery pack.
U.S. military researchers are asking industry to begin work on developing a reusable hypersonic unmanned spacecraft able to carry and deploy 3,000-to-5,000-pound satellites to low-Earth orbit (LEO) for less than $5 million per launch. Continue reading
Arotech Corporation, a provider of defence and security products for the military, law enforcement, and homeland security markets, announced that its Battery and Power Systems Division recently received orders to develop special chargers for batteries which power unmanned aircraft vehicles (UAS). The orders totaled in excess of $700,000. Continue reading
In 1976, US Air Force SR-71 Blackbird crews flew from New York to London in less than two hours, reaching speeds exceeding Mach 3 and setting world records that have held up for nearly four decades. Today, at the birthplace of the Blackbird – Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works – engineers are developing a hypersonic aircraft that will go twice the speed of the SR-71. It’s called the SR-72. Continue reading