NUAIR Chief Operations Officer Tony Basile says getting to this point was no easy task.
UPP2 was the most complex, technologically advanced project that the New York test site has ever worked on.
UPP2 is the second phase of the unmanned aircraft traffic management pilot program. Forty people from 13 different organizations came together physically and virtually to complete the work, which took 6 months to plan and three months to execute. Basile says they’re demonstrating a number of technologies for drones to operate safely in the air. That includes a collision avoidance system similar to those on airliners.
The systems give direction to each aircraft on how to avoid. So, it ll say to one aircraft descend and turn right, and the other craft it ll say climb and turn left.
The Future Flight Challenge itself is a government initiative supporting the development of new technologies in the UK, including freight-carrying drones, urban air vehicles, and hybrid-electric regional aircraft.
It is funded by £125 million from the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund, which is, in turn, expected to be matched by up to £175 million from industry.
The Airspace of the Future project says it will work to integrate quieter, more efficient, and less polluting aircraft within the rest of the transport infrastructure, ensuring aircraft can fly to and from a cost-effective network of small operating bases.
The group will also develop the supporting ground infrastructure, regulation and control systems required to use these new aircraft practically and safely.
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uAvionix Launches pingStation 2 ADS-B Receiver
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uAvionix announced the launch of its pingStation 2 dual-frequency ADS-B ground receiver on Tuesday. The new ADS-B ground station, an upgraded version of the company’s pingStation, includes 978 and 1090 MHz ADS-B receivers, GPS, antenna and a Power-Over-Ethernet (POE) interface. According to uAvionix, the pingStation 2 has a range of more than 200 miles, a 50 percent increase over its predecessor, along with providing high-resolution timestamps and tool-free installation.
“With a selection of non-proprietary data interfaces, pingStation 2 is designed to integrate into a multitude of end-user applications, including airport displays, UAS GCS, Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) Solutions, and Flight Information Displays (FID),” uAvionix said. “pingStation 2 is robust enough to be permanently mounted outdoors in harsh environmental conditions and small enough to be used as a mobile asset for roaming operations.”
Glaive International Defence and Marques Aviation Partner to Manufacture UAVs in Australia Our Bureau 1856
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Glaive International Defence and Marques Aviation will collaborate to manufacture advanced unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in Australia.
The new partnership with Marques Aviation involves Technology Transfer (TT). The London-based company incorporates the Oxford Aerospace Academy which hosts its Oxford Aerospace Research Centre (OARC-UK), a platform that coordinates international R&D consortia for the development of forward-thinking aerospace technologies. OARC-UK will provide R&D programs and education and training via Glaive International Defence’s facilities in Australia, Glaive International Defence said in a release.