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  Hummingbird UAV flight video

  Posted by Guy Norris 4:59 PM on Mar 01, 2011

  At a rare AeroVironment media event in Simi Valley on Feb 25, the company’s Hummingbird project manager Matt Keennon described, and then demonstrated, the flight characterist... Read More >>

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  Rise of the Airships

  Posted by Graham Warwick 8:48 PM on May 21, 2010

  Airships are making more hot news than hot air these days, but whether their bouyancy can be maintained when the war cools down remains to be seen.The biggest news is just around t... Read More >>

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  NASA's Global Hawk Stretches its Legs

  Posted by Graham Warwick 4:22 PM on Apr 16, 2010

  NASA is getting the hang of operating its Global Hawk high-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aircraft, completing a 24-hour flight over the Pacific on April 13 that covered almost ... Read More >>

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  Old VTOL Ideas Never Die

  Posted by Graham Warwick 9:17 PM on Feb 15, 2010

  American Dynamics Flight Systems, a small US firm based in Maryland, is developing a VTOL unmanned aircraft with a mix of private equity and state funding in the hope of ... Read More >>

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  Fuel Cells Fly Vertically

  Posted by Graham Warwick 4:46 PM on Nov 24, 2009

  United Technologies Research Center (UTRC) is claiming a first - the first flight of a rotorcraft powered by a fuel cell. The rotorcraft was a remote-controlled model helicopt... Read More >>

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  UAVs in Civil Airspace - Not Yet, No Way

  Posted by Graham Warwick 3:06 PM on Nov 20, 2009

  It's no surprise, but the FAA doesn't think unmanned aircraft are ready to use civil airspace. If anyone thought the US regulator was going to change it's mind, FAA Administrator R... Read More >>

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