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Topic: Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Bottom line: The thinking on Urban Air Mobility (UAM) has advanced so much that it was decided Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) was a better term to use. ![]() Advanced Air Mobility, with its many vehicle concepts and potential uses in both local and intraregional applications, is shown in this illustration. (NASA) «Read the rest of this article» Sections: Technology | No Comments
NASA Research in 2019 Enables Future Aviation Advances
Based on our strategic research plan, NASA’s flight team during 2019 was widely focused on conducting scientific and engineering investigations in three broad areas. ![]() The retired USS Lexington aircraft carrier – now on display at Corpus Christi, Texas – was one of the sites where NASA and industry researchers during 2019 demonstrated increasingly complex traffic management capabilities flying Unmanned Aircraft Systems. (NASA) «Read the rest of this article» Sections: Technology | No Comments
NASA looks to make Traveling by Personal Air Vehicle a RealityNASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center
So, inspired visionaries considered new ways to get about town and dreamt of innovative flying machines that could safely transport passengers and ship cargo within the urban jungle by rising above the congestion below. No, we’re not talking about the Wright Brothers in 1903. This is the new era in air transportation that NASA and a community of government, industry and academic partners are working together on, right now. ![]() An artist’s conception of an urban air mobility environment, where air vehicles with a variety of missions and with or without pilots, are able to interact safely and efficiently. (NASA / Lillian Gipson) «Read the rest of this article» Sections: Technology | No Comments
NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center rolls out miniature aircraft MicroCubWritten by Rebecca Richardson
Through cutting-edge engineering and expert piloting of small, unmanned aircraft NASA is leading a critical phase for UAS integration into the NAS by educating engineers and validating key technologies that will directly apply to the next generation of large-scale unmanned vehicles. ![]() Crew members of the Subscale Research Lab at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in California perform a series of preflight system checks of the MicroCub to ensure the aircraft is ready for its maiden flight. (NASA Photo / Lauren Hughes) «Read the rest of this article» Sections: Technology | No Comments
NASA uses Unmanned Aircraft to aid in Hurricane Harvey Search and RescueWritten by Jay Levine, X-Press editor
The unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) detect and avoid technology (DAA) developed and flight tested at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center in California used in Texas fulfils a primary goal that Armstrong researcher Ricardo Arteaga and his team had from the start – help people. «Read the rest of this article» Sections: Technology | No Comments
NASA Drone System to be used for Glacier Research by University of KansasWritten by Darryl Waller
The UAS, named Viking-400, will allow students and faculty in the university’s Department of Aeronautical Engineering to gain hands-on experience with a production air vehicle to complement the school’s curriculum. . It will also facilitate the integration of radar instrument onto the aircraft. Students also will generate 3-D models of the aircraft that NASA will use for engineering and analysis. «Read the rest of this article» Sections: Technology | No Comments
State Farm® Cleared by FFA for Commercial Drone UseFAA okays insurer to test damage-assessing drones
The decision provides the insurer the opportunity to research this new technology and potentially deploy it in ways that could benefit customers. State Farm plans to explore the use of unmanned aircraft to assess potential roof damage during the claims process and respond to natural disasters. «Read the rest of this article» Sections: News | No Comments
160th Special Operations Aviation E Company Soldiers equipped with MQ-1C Gray Eagle Unmanned Aircraft System; soon to be based at Fort CampbellWritten by Maj. Emily Potter Fort Bragg, NC – When E Company, 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR) (Airborne), activated last month, it become just the fifth Gray Eagle company in the Army, and the first in special operations. Currently, each Special Forces group has an Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) platoon consisting of the RQ-7 Shadow, designed to provide UAS support at the brigade level. The MQ-1C Gray Eagle brings more capability to the fight, and is able to support at the Theater Special Operations Command level. ![]() Soldiers from E Company, 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne), explain the capabilities of the MQ-1C Gray Eagle Unmanned Aircraft System at their activation ceremony Nov. 19, 2013.(Army photo) «Read the rest of this article» Sections: News | No Comments
Army Divisions will get 9 Gray Eagles to train, but will deploy with 12
With the current program of record, a purchase of 152 Gray Eagles in total, the Army won’t have enough of the aircraft to give a full assignment of 12 aircraft to every one of the divisions it plans on equipping; so some may get as few as nine aircraft. But when those units go downrange, they will get a full component, Army aviation officials said. ![]() An MQ-1C Gray Eagle unmanned aircraft makes its way down an airfield on Camp Taji, Iraq, before a surveillance mission in the Baghdad area. The Gray Eagle is the Army’s newest “eyes in the sky,” and is being tested by Quick Reaction Capability 1-Reaction 1, the only unit using the aircraft in Iraq. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Roland Hale, eCAB, 1st Inf. Div. PAO) «Read the rest of this article» Sections: News | No Comments
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