UAVs

Digest

ISS Aerospace Sensus L heavy-lift multicopter

Developed by ISS Aerospace in Chieveley, Berkshire, in England’s Thames Valley, the Sensus L is a modular heavy-lift multicopter built to handle demanding, data-intensive tasks in a variety of industries. Initially created to tackle oil giant Total’s METIS programme...

Digest

RigiTech Eiger UAV

With the advent of uncrewed logistics solutions in air, and on land and sea, it pays to understand there are fundamental differences between what logistics operators need of their UAS, and what conventional UASs (designed most often for imaging-based work) bring to the table...

Digest

FIXAR 025

The value of UAVs for mapping and inspection is directly linked to the efficiency with which they carry their sensor payloads. While this has been known for years, it is only recently that advances in modern design capabilities have enabled aerospace engineers to pursue alternatives...

In Operation

Red Cat Holdings Black Widow

Small UAVs have carved themselves a dominant position in modern land warfare of late, with both sides in the Ukraine War using them for intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and strike missions. The war has been characterised by demanding physical conditions...

In Operation

Dropla mine countermeasures

In August 2023, much of the media surrounding the war in Ukraine was focused on an incipient counteroffensive, aimed at retaking occupied territories, including the Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts. By December, however...

Dossier

Honeywell 600U, 600U-HV and 1200U fuel cells

In UST 14 (June/July 2017) we featured the hydrogen fuel cell from the Protonex Technology Corporation, which at the time was principally used by Insitu...

Digest

Clogworks Dark Matter

While the multi-copter is almost the default configuration for VTOL UAVs, those designed for professional use and BVLOS operations...

In Operation

Elroy Air Chaparral

Over the past few years, technological maturity among UAVs built for last mile logistics has spilled over into more complex aircraft systems...

Dossier

ULPower UL350i and UL350iHPS

ULPower Aero Engines is a Belgian company best known for designing and supplying power units for a variety of light sport aircraft. Its inception...

Digest

New take on stability

Orthodrone is developing a multicopter technology it calls Pivot, which embodies the radical concept of stabilising the entire fuselage while the propulsion system moves around it to compensate for wind coming from any direction. The purpose of this departure from convention is...
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