Ultra Electronics, AMI (AMI) recently delivered 45 of its ROAMIO D245XR fuel cells for use by the U.S. military in unmanned aerial systems (UAS). Continue reading
Category Archives: Aircraft Propulsion & Energy
Boeing Phantom Eye’s First Flight – Video
Boeing’s unmanned aircraft, Phantom Eye, completed its first take off and landing June 1. Continue reading
D-Star Engineering Gets $5M IARPA Contract to Develop Silent VTOL UAS
Ducted-fan VTOL unmanned aircraft have a lot to offer – the ability to take off, land and fly in confined urban spaces being one. But quiet they are not, at least those that are big enough to carry a useful payload for a useful time. Continue reading
L2 Aerospace and Cella Energy Develop Hydrogen Storage for UAS
L2 Aerospace and Cella Energy have teamed up to develop hydrogen storage technology for small, fuel-cell-powered unmanned aircraft systems and potentially other, larger manned and unmanned aircraft. Continue reading
Laser Powers Lockheed Martin’s Stalker UAS For 48 Hours
Lockheed Martin and LaserMotive, Inc., recently demonstrated the capabilities of an innovative laser power system to extend the Stalker UAS flight time to more than 48 hours, representing an improvement of 2,400 percent. Continue reading
Supersonic Mini-UAS to Challenge Jet Speed Record
Researchers at the University of Colorado are building the smallest supersonic jet engine ever made. Continue reading
Exhaust-Heat Thermoelectric Generator Converts Waste Energy into Electrical Power in Flight.
A team of engineers at Electronic Cooling Solutions worked with John Langley and engineers at Ambient Micro to build an exhaust-heat thermoelectric generator (EHTEG) that can be incorporated into a UAS design to harvest and convert waste energy into electrical power in flight. Continue reading
AirMule to Fly with New Hydraulics
Urban Aeronautics will soon perform the first flight of an AirMule ducted fan unmanned aircraft system fitted with a double-redundant hydraulic system. Continue reading