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  Quicker Thinking - ONR Steps Up the Pace

  Posted by Graham Warwick 2:01 AM on Apr 14, 2012

  This article was originally published as the Leading Edge column in the Apr. 16 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology.Photo: US NavyQuicker ThinkingBudget cuts not only put... Read More >>

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  Cold Comfort - Nano Anti-Icing

  Posted by Graham Warwick 5:06 PM on Mar 23, 2012

  This article was originally published as the Leading Edge column in the Mar. 12 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology.Cold ComfortIcing has been a threat to aviation since ... Read More >>

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  Agility and Autonomy - UPenn's Nanocopters

  Posted by Graham Warwick 6:09 PM on Mar 02, 2012

  If you've seen the Youtube videos of swarming nano-UAVs dancing, or building a tower, then you might be interested in the story behind the technology, as told in a TED talk by Prof... Read More >>

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  Gojett - Making Supersonic Testing Affordable

  Posted by Graham Warwick 11:36 PM on Feb 29, 2012

  Starkey Aerospace - Starcor - is a start-up company formed by University of Colorado Boulder assistant professor Ryan Starkey to develop a small, low-cost, supersonic unmanned airc... Read More >>

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  DARPA's UAVforge Closes in on Final 10

  Posted by Graham Warwick 1:53 PM on Feb 06, 2012

  DARPA's UAVforge competition to crowd-source the design of a small perch-and-stare unmanned aircraft has completed its second round, with participants voting on "proof-of-flight" v... Read More >>

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  UAVs Join Fight Against Whaling

  Posted by Graham Warwick 4:39 PM on Jan 05, 2012

  If any recent news story illustrates the potential of unmanned technology to up-end things, it's this one. Australia has approved the use of unmanned aircraft over Antarctic waters... Read More >>

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  Evenin' All - Unmanned on the Beat

  Posted by Graham Warwick 6:15 PM on Dec 28, 2011

  As the FAA edges closer to releasing for public comment its first rules for allowing small unmanned aircraft into national airspace, one sector straining at the leash to use UAVs i... Read More >>

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  Remote Sensors Glide Into Position

  Posted by Graham Warwick 5:26 PM on Dec 27, 2011

  Miniature gliders released from an unmanned aircraft dropped from a high-altitude balloon - that was the US Navy Research Laboratory's (NRL) Autonomous Deployment Demonstration (AD... Read More >>

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  Airships to Orbit?

  Posted by Graham Warwick 9:15 PM on Oct 27, 2011

  JP Aerospace, a volunteer-based organization dedicated to low-cost space access, is claiming an airship altitude record after its twin-balloon Tandem reached 95,085ft after launch ... Read More >>

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  Transformer - Coming to a Theater Near You?

  Posted by Graham Warwick 6:55 PM on Oct 24, 2011

  "Flying Humvees" being designed by AAI and Lockheed Martin have made it through to the second phase of DARPA's Transformer (TX) program - but the sheer scale of the challenges in p... Read More >>

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