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AMA Drone Report 06.28.18: Aerial Sports League, Volcano UAVs, ANN/AMA at OSH18

Also: Facebook Abandons Aquila, Lindbergh Innovation Forum, Student-Designed Drones, Autonomous Aerial Vehicles Competition

Comcast will partner with the Aerial Sports League to host The Xfinity California Drone Speed Challenge – Level 2. Starting this month, drone pilot teams will compete in a multi-week, eSports-style “virtual qualifier” series through the VelociDrone racing simulator while winning teams will move on to compete, live, on July 19 for the championship at Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, CA. A $25,000 prize purse is up for grabs as the fastest drone teams compete in

NASA Prepares To Go Public With Quiet Supersonic Tech

Test Flights To Be Conducted Around Galveston, TX In November

Arriving 49,000 feet above the test site, higher than the airlines fly, NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center test pilot Jim “Clue” Less shuts down his F/A-18’s afterburners moving just shy of Mach 1, the speed of sound, or about 630 mph at this altitude.

Airborne-Unmanned 06.26.18: MQ-9B v Lightning, LiquidPiston Diesel, Syracuse UAV

Also: Student-Designed Drones, Insitu Small UAS Services, Deveron Drone Data, DJI’s New HQ In Shenzhen

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI) used its second full-scale MQ-9B to conduct successful lightning tests at its facility in Poway, California last month. The test was conducted jointly between engineers from GA-ASI and NTS Pittsfield. MQ-9B is GA-ASI’s latest evolution of GA-ASI’s multi-mission Predator B fleet of Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA). The same lightning protection technology will be used by GA-ASI for its proposed MQ-25 unmanned aerial refueling tanker for

Aero-News: Quote of the Day (07.04.18)

“With the X-59 you’re still going to have multiple shockwaves because of the wings on the aircraft that create lift and the volume of the plane. But the airplane’s shape is carefully tailored such that those shockwaves do not combine.” Source: Ed Haering, a NASA aerospace engineer at Armstrong.

ANN's Daily Aero-Term (07.04.18): Uncaging

Unlocking the gimbals of a gyroscopic instrument, making it susceptible to damage by abrupt flight maneuvers or rough handling.

ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (07.04.18)

Flight School Association of North America

The Flight School Association of North America is a membership-based association which represents fight schools, firms that provide products or services to the fight training or aviation industry, and supporting partners.