UAV in a Firefight of a Different Kind

UAVs contra los incendios:

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/08/firefighting-uav/

Unmanned aerial aircraft see a lot of action on the battle front, but not all the battles are in Iraq or Afghanistan. Some firefights are waged on the home front

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Sense-And-Avoid System Planned For UAVs

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Originally the services were pursuing separate solutions for operating the aircraft in national airspace, but the Navy has announced its intention to award Northrop Grumman a sole-source contract to develop a common system that also will be scalable to medium-altitude unmanned aircraft.

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Airbus estudia sustituir las cajas negras por el envío de datos por satélite

http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2009/09/04/navegante/1252048277.html

 

El fabricante aeronáutico europeo Airbus trabaja en un proyecto para sustituir las cajas negras de los aviones, que almacenan los datos de vuelo, por un sistema de envío de la información por satélite y así evitar que se pierdan esos dispositivos en caso de accidente.

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Antonov’s Odyssey: AN-70 Program Taking Flight

http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/Antonovs-Odyssey-AN-70-Program-Taking-Flight-05741/

 

Antonov's AN-70 has had a long and difficult development history from its first studies and concepts in 1979, including the dissolution of its sponsoring state in 1991, the crash of the initial prototype aircraft in a 1995 collision with its chase plane, and the selection of the EADS A400M development project as the basis of Europe's Future Large Aircraft

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Airbus: Keeps Goal Of First A400M Flight Around End Of 2009

http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20090819-704156.html

 

PARIS (Dow Jones)--European commercial aircraft manufacturer Airbus's troubled A400M military transport plane should make its first flight around the end of 2009, a company spokeswoman said Wednesday.

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Trade ministers ready to study WTO Airbus ruling

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/04/AR2009090401124.html

GENEVA/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Top officials from the United States, European Union and Brazil on Friday awaited a pivotal World Trade Organization ruling on subsidies to Airbus <EAD.PA> that stands to impact the global aircraft sector.

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La OMC se podría pronunciar mañana sobre las ayudas a Airbus

http://www.europapress.es/economia/noticia-economia-empresas-omc-podria-pronunciar-manana-ayudas-airbus-20090903185739.html

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La Organización Mundial del Comercio (OMC) se podría pronunciar mañana
sobre las supuestas ayudas ilegales que recibió el consorcio
aeronáutico Airbus

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EEUU obliga a las aerolíneas a cambiar los sensores de velocidad de los A330

http://www.europapress.es/economia/noticia-eeuu-obliga-aerolineas-cambiar-sensores-velocidad-a330-20090903184249.html

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MADRID, 4 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) -

  La Administración Federal de Aviación (FAA) de Estados Unidos ha ordenado a todas las aerolíneas estadounidenses que cuenten con aviones del fabricante europeo Airbus del modelo A330 a cambiar los sensores de velocidad 'pitot' en un plazo de 120 días.

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